This is an introduction to the 2024 HICSS minitrack on the Bright and Dark Side of Social Media in the Marginalized Contexts within the special track Information Technology, Social Justice, and Marginalized Context. In this minitrack, we seek to expose the dark side of social media in marginalized contexts, as well as to advance our understanding of how social media could be used to bring light to society in the marginalized contexts. This introduction provides an overview of this minitrack and the three papers accepted to the minitrack.