Through a secondary analysis of the data provided by the report of International Governance Innovation (CIGI) about “Social media, Fake news & Algorithms", this study attempts to reveal whether social media platforms have been able to create a new model for a media system that can work in the same way in all societies? Or does its ability to influence differ from one society to another? The survey is conducted in 25 economies. The results show that the most prominent aspects of the social media impact across nations are: ease of communication, access to information, Distractions during the day, Freedom of expression and Polarization in politics. The study concluded that the influence of social media is greater in countries governed by non-democratic regimes as well as developing countries. The study proposed a model for the aspects in which social media is most influential through intermediate variables, which are the level of freedom and the state of economic growth in the country. Thus, the impact of social media in different countries can be considered a new normative theory in addition to previous normative theories. Keywords: normative theories, development media, authoritarian theory, press freedom theory, influence of social media