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
Through manipulation and lies, media manages to modify objective news into biased news in order to convince the public of what the media wants them to believe. The article, “How the Media Twist the News”, by Sheila Gribben Liaugminas discusses the major influence that news has on readers based on their choice of stories and words. “How the Media Twists the News” has borrowed from multiple other texts such as the books like Public Opinion and Liberty and News, news magazine writers such as Ruderman, and news networks like CBS through Bias, A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News and CNN to make her arguments valid and prove that the news is biased and that it does influence readers significantly because of it.
In this paper, I consider the growing role of social media in presidential politics during the current era. The research questions the extent of the political impact of social media on the president and his communication with the public. It is necessary thus to examine the properties that make social media an attractive tool to use, the different ways the president interacts with social media, and both benefits and limitations of using social media as a platform for communication. As a result, it is essential to make conclusions regarding the nature of the relationship between social media and the presidential politics.
The researchers present findings that indicate that a politician’s popularity in the voting booth may be related to the frequency with which the candidate is talked about on social media. The researchers goes on to discuss how further research may conclude that social media has a bigger impact on voting outcomes than traditional forms of media, and how that could potentially shape the future of voting.
Fake news on social media is one way that causes mankind to rebel against one another's beliefs and ideas. Everyday we may come across or see some type of fake news
Many mainstream media outlets engaged in what some believed to be “journalistic bias” causing many people to mistrust the information that was being presented to them. What made the situation even more destructive was the fact, since many social media outlets, like Facebook for example, were providing information only relating to what a person likes and creating an echo chamber. This echo chamber meant that people were only receiving information about a one specific candidate limiting their options and viewpoints of the all the other possibilities. The media plays an important role in providing information to the public, and when they fail to meet standards it can be very disastrous to the mediated culture and can affect society in a positive or negative
The news media and social media affect and influence the political world. The political arena can now be easily accessed through every citizen’s smartphone screens and tablet screens. For instance, Barack Obama became the country’s most Instagrammer-in-Chief (Carr). Obama utilized social media to promote his climate agenda while on his trip to Alaska. He would snap pictures of the landscape and share the pictures on his social media accounts which earned him more than thousands of likes. The media and its political connections play a huge scene in this topic of influence. Since the election of 2008, Obama utilized Facebook to connect with the public (Carr). This year’s 2016 Presidential candidates have been using social media to connect with the public. The media interprets and impact discussions made by the public and its candidates, as well as polling and voting. Obama has paved the path since 2008 in using social media to connect with the public, and Obama has been a pacesetting in this year’s presidential candidates. For example, Senator Ted Cruz often appears on Periscope, Marco Rubio snap videos and pictures on Snapchat at stops along his
Throughout the years, news medias from all sources have been reporting on recent events, and informing it to the public via television, social media, or even newspaper. One event has change most of the public opinion on news media, and that event was the 2016 U.S. Presidential election featuring Donald Trump and Hilary Clinton. Almost all news media were keeping track of the polls and reporting it to the public. However, some news media were bias towards one of the president nominee more than the other, so they either report more on the president nominee of their choosing, or refuse to report on any news of their opposing president nominee, or even make up news to hurt their polls. These biases in media has cause the public to either pay more
The 2008 presidential election was historic. The United States elected its first African-American president and the use of the internet and social media greatly influenced the way elections played out for the first time in history. This election set a precedent for the way politicians could use social media to reach out to voters who they may not otherwise have a connection with. Mass media and social media changed the way elections played out by increasing voter intelligence, encouraging young people and people of color to vote, and spreading propaganda via the internet.
With technology being the main source of information for the younger generation it was only a matter of time before politicians jumped on the bandwagon to sway voters in their favor. Social media has been around for awhile and it was used in passed elections it never had the same rating as it did in 2014 were politicians and campaigns were creating Facebook, Twitter, Tumbler, and other site pages to up themselves amongst the people. It has been averaged out that teenagers and young adults spend around twenty-seven hours a week on social media sites and during the midterm elections 28 percent of young Americans received candidate information from online sources, so it was seen that around seven hours and forty-five minutes or so were spent solely on the midterm election. Which is the most amount of time covered on social media involving the elections for example in 2010 the coverage and usage on social media sites for the midterm election then was 13
The purpose of this essay is to develop a further understanding of the impacts of social media in regards to the political debate. By looking at the topic of social media and the use rhetoric in response to politics in the 21st century, a deeper understanding of the issue can be established. Social media has become a primary source for the discussion of politics by the average citizen; whether through the sharing of articles, “memes”, advertisements or personal expository statements. As a result, large sums of information and ideas are spread rapidly to a wide variety of subjects. However, much of this information may not be accurate and could be misinterpreted. Consequently potentially misinformed citizens may not be able to make a properly
Social media including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube, Flicker, internet websites, and blogs are becoming mainstream attracting a younger more technology savvy voter. Many candidates in the last elections learned to use these mediums so not to overlook tech savvy voters and learned how to use these to their advantage. Candidates took to the internet to raise awareness, state views, and even successfully raised donations. Social media was able to provide instant feedback on the standing of a candidate often days or weeks sooner than a more traditional poll.
Media is the most influential and effective tool of getting your message across the globe. Many have realised this. Not only politicians use it, but many prominent people use it. In this instance, we focus on how electronic media were used during the presidential campaigns, to reach audiences and convince the masses to vote for the running candidate. (Anon., 2013) states that “many candidates and their staffs believe that the media should be used mainly to promote and advertise campaigns, What media did they use and how they used it?
Fake News is constantly being written, permeating through television broadcasts, internet sites, and magazine articles. It seems that the amount of false news in the world is starting to overtake the amount of genuine information. This is indeed a problem, but not as much as people make it out to be. This is for a few reasons. Fake news is much like bacteria, there are both beneficial and harmful types of fake news. Beneficial fake news is usually
...stence depends upon continued success in furnishing readers and listeners with a wide range of facts,” said reporter Julian Adams. By the public depending on media for information, they are making the media money. Buying newspapers and magazines are compensating those companies. Listening to your local radio station and watching your local news channel is compensating those companies. “Staging (fabrication) or deliberate distortion of news is against public interest,” said writer William B. Ray. Society believes in media and the media believes in the society. So let the society know the real data and what’s important. Knowing what’s important captures the public’s interest rather than knowing what’s fake. Falsifying News is legal meaning the media is allowed to lie to the public. Everyone has their own views on this topic but either way lying to the society is wrong.
On social media, each individual has the power to be influential and important. There is a freedom of expression on social media that we are allowed to express. A user on Facebook can post anything they want or anything they want for free.... ... middle of paper ... ...