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  1. Social media as a news source - Wikipedia

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    A 2019 study found Facebook and Twitter users are more likely to share politics, public affairs, and visual media news. [12] Social media users may circulate more negative news. A study of tweets found that while optimistic-sounding and neutral-sounding tweets were equally likely to express certainty or uncertainty, the pessimistic tweets were ...

  2. Acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Business magnate Elon Musk initiated an acquisition of American social media company Twitter, Inc. on April 14, 2022, and concluded it on October 27, 2022. Musk had begun buying shares of the company in January 2022, becoming its largest shareholder by April with a 9.1 percent ownership stake.

  3. Social media - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Media ethics - Wikipedia

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    Media ethics is the subdivision dealing with the specific ethical principles and standards of media, including broadcast media, film, theatre, the arts, print media and the internet. The field covers many varied and highly controversial topics, ranging from war journalism to Benetton ad campaigns. Media ethics promotes and defends values such ...

  5. Twitter’s rivals are still standing, and so is X - AOL

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    Elon Musk, X’s billionaire owner, sees the inevitable. If paying brands stay off the platform, denying what used to be Twitter's lifeblood of ad revenue, X is toast.Musk himself has admitted as ...

  6. Social media use in politics - Wikipedia

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    Two-thirds of Facebook users (66%) access news on the platform; 59% of Twitter users access news on the platform, and 70% of Reddit users access news on the platform. [16] According to the Reuters Institute Digital News Report in 2013, the percentage of online news users who blog about news issues ranges from 1–5%.

  7. August 27, 2024 at 9:59 AM. By Gnaneshwar Rajan and Nandita Bose. (Reuters) - Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the Biden administration had pressured the company to "censor" COVID-19 ...

  8. Business journalism - Wikipedia

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    Business journalism is the part of journalism that tracks, records, analyzes, and interprets the business, economic and financial activities and changes that take place in societies. Topics widely cover the entire purview of all commercial activities related to the economy. This area of journalism provides news and feature articles about people ...