Social Media Impact On The 2016 Election

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40 percent of registered US voters didn't vote in the 2016 election. This is in large part because of the fake news in social media that altered people's opinions of social media (heavy.com). This altered a major event in US history and fake news will continue to impact fake news until someone does something about it. It has been powered by social media and fake news websites on the internet. Fake news has also has led to blow ups in the recent future which have almost cost people their lives. Multiple examples of all of these will be show in the piece Fake news has been fueled by social media. Back when people would use newspapers as their main form of news the majority of it would come from credible sources and would be true, …show more content…

The 2016 election is a perfect example of fake news impacting people's opinions which had a great impact on our country. The 2016 election was an odd one, instead of people talking about each other political campaigns they would talk about each other's, looks, and actions which cause many people to take advantage of that and start to spread false information about them. People tried to say that Hillary Clinton had to pay Jay Z and Beyonce 62 million dollars to perform at a rally in Cleveland, this was proven false by multiple sources many people still believed it and thought she was fake. People also stated that they did not vote for Hillary Clinton because of stories that she had got an abortion at a younger age and that she was involved in the killing of an FBI agent which have also both been “While established media outlets are brands built on accuracy, rogue websites, some masquerading as legitimate, are reporting misinformation and it’s spreading like wildfire online. Even President Obama urged common sense during a press conference two weeks ago in Germany “If we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems,” he said” (chang, lefferman, pederson & martz). So these rogue sites caused many people's vote to sway during the election. Fake news has also impacted many other big events such as deflategate among others. That's how social media has swayed peoples opinions on one occasion but even though only one example was used here it doesn't mean that there are countless examples of fake news on social

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