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  2. 'Shut it down!' How group chats, rumors and fear sparked a ...

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    The crowd that descended on UCLA was inflamed by posts on social media and in private group chats that said Jewish students were being mistreated, blocked from parts of campus and even attacked.

  3. Drake Makes Song for ‘Biggest Gangster’ Taylor Swift Amid ...

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    As Us Weekly reported yesterday, Kardashian, 43, has lost a whopping 120,000 and counting social media followers in the few days since Swift released her scathing revenge song, “thanK you aIMee ...

  4. List of social platforms with at least 100 million active ...

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    4. Instagram. Meta Platforms. United States. 2010. 2 billion [4] 500 million daily Instagram Stories users [5] 5. TikTok.

  5. Taylor Swift is Shocking Focus of Kendrick Lamar and ... - AOL

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    Taylor Swift has found herself at the center of pal Kendrick Lamar and rapper Drake ‘s ongoing feud. The TTPD hitmaker, 34, woke up yesterday to a firestorm which saw her dragged into a rap ...

  6. Timeline of social media - Wikipedia

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    Decade Description 1970s–1980s The PLATO system (developed at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation) offers early forms of social media with Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowd-sourced online newspaper, and blog; and ...

  7. Sensationalism - Wikipedia

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    Sensationalism was used in books of the 16th and 17th century, to teach moral lessons. According to Stephens, sensationalism brought the news to a new audience when it became aimed at the lower class, who had less of a need to accurately understand politics and the economy, to occupy them in other matters.

  8. Social media as a news source - Wikipedia

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    Social media as a news source is the use of online social media platforms rather than moreover traditional media platforms to obtain news. Just as television turned a nation of people who listened to media content into watchers of media content in the 1950s to the 1980s, the emergence of social media has created a nation of media content ...

  9. Police: Social media sleuths risked scuppering ‘most shocking ...

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    Detective Chief Inspector Andy Howard said social media played a crucial role in securing the convictions, but said it also represented a challenge.