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In today's day and age, almost 62% of adults get their news from social media platforms and that number is increasing. [53] There are two distinctions between news found on social media and traditional journalism. The first is that any user can create news on social media, regardless if it is fake or real.
Also, Twitter is recorded as having the highest number of news focused users among other social media outlets [19] Romanian scholar Sofia Bratu [20] conducted a study which considered individuals' perception of the source of fake news by surveying nearly 5000 U.S. citizens and analyzing data from The Economist, Gallup, Pew Research Center ...
Fox News reported instances where social media groups spread rumors opposing vaccines and campaigning against 5G mobile phone networks. For example, the Stop 5G French group on Facebook shared an article from BBC News claiming, "It is becoming pretty clear that the Hunan coronavirus is an engineered bio-weapon that was either purposely or ...
Social media caused many controversies during the 2020 election. During the 2020 election, social media was the primary source of the spread of false information. Social media users also faced polarization due to social media algorithms, creating an echo chamber for social media users and only exposing themselves to their own beliefs.
The growth of social media networks have also created new opportunities for automated and efficient news gathering for journalists and newsrooms. Many newsrooms (broadcasters, newspapers, magazines, radio and TV) have started to perform news gathering on social media platforms. Social media is creating changes in the consumer behaviour and news ...
Lachlan Murdoch, co-chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Corp., at the Sun Valley media conference in Idaho in 2019. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters) (Brendan McDermid / reuters)
The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...
Trump Media’s general counsel, Scott Glabe, chief operating officer Andrew Northwall, and chief technology officer Vladimir Novachki each sold shares as well, according to Aug. 22 SEC filings.