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  2. 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 ...

  3. Mass surveillance in China - Wikipedia

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    State media in China claim that Skynet is the largest video surveillance system in the world, utilizing facial recognition technology and big data analysis. In 2019, Comparitech reported that 8 out of the 10 most monitored cities in the world are in China, with Chongqing, Shenzhen and Shanghai being the world's top 3.

  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. '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.

  6. 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.

  7. World's Most Amazing Videos - Wikipedia

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    March 28, 2008. ( 2008-03-28) World's Most Amazing Videos is an American reality television series that ran on NBC from March 3, 1999, until 2001, as a filler program when other shows were cancelled and later revived on Spike from 2006 until 2008. The show showcases accidents, disasters, police chases and other extraordinary events that were ...

  8. Sensationalism - Wikipedia

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    The attention-grasping rhetorical techniques found in sensation fiction were also employed in articles on science, modern technology, finance, and in historical accounts of contemporary events. [7] Sensationalism in nineteenth century could be found in popular culture, literature, performance, art history, theory, pre-cinema, and early cinema.

  9. Social media users are collectively blocking celebrities and ...

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    Hundreds of celebrities are on the “digital guillotine” as social media users campaign for a #blockout — urging one another to block the social media accounts of big names who have remained ...