Today social media is a source of most media that people intake. I know that I personally use hours of social media in a day. I use snapchat, youtube, twitter, etc. and while you can get tons of useful information on these apps, the potential for false information is still very high because no one controls what is put up on these sites. That is exactly what this article talks about. It takes a look into the effect that social media has on politics because of the misinformation. With the possibility of information people should be considering what they hear and trying to get accurate information more than ever but that is not what we tend to see in these situations. We tend to see rumors and false truths spread around like wild. This article makes some valid points about how it is possible to get rumors that are un true in a political climate but I would take the article with a grain of salt as well because it seems to have a bias and agenda about Trump which is not what you want in a reliable source. I would say that people in todays age should work harder on trying to identify real information from false information. If we try harder to distinguish between these lies and truths then we can’t be fooled because we aren’t just taking information at face value.
BLOG 4: Problems in Social Media
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