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  2. Social media - Wikipedia

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    Social media allows people to be creative and share interesting ideas with their followers or fans. Certain social media applications such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram are places where users share specific political or sports content. Many reporters and journalists produce updates and information on sports and political news.

  3. 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. 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 ...

  4. Tweet (social media) - Wikipedia

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    A user tweeting about bugs. A tweet is a short status update on the social networking site X (formerly Twitter), which can include images, videos, GIFs, straw polls, hashtags, mentions, and hyperlinks. Around 80% of all tweets are made by 10% of users, averaging 138 tweets per month, with the median user making only two tweets per month.

  5. Microblogging - Wikipedia

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    Microblogging. Microblogging is a form of blogging using short posts without titles known as microposts [1] [2] [3] (or status updates on a minority of websites like Meta Platforms '). Microblogs "allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links", [1] which may be the major reason for ...

  6. Facebook - Wikipedia

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    In December 2018, The Washington Post reported that "Facebook has suspended the account of Jonathon Morgan, the chief executive of a top social media research firm" New Knowledge, "after reports that he and others engaged in an operation to spread disinformation" on Facebook and Twitter during the 2017 United States Senate special election in ...

  7. Censorship of Facebook - Wikipedia

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    Facebook is a social networking service that has been gradually replacing traditional media channels since 2010. Facebook has limited moderation of the content posted to its site. Because the site indiscriminately displays material publicly posted by users, Facebook can, in effect, threaten oppressive governments. Facebook can

  8. Truth Social - Wikipedia

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    Truth Social (stylized as TRUTH Social) is an alt-tech [4] [5] [6] social media platform owned by Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), an American media and technology company majority-owned by former U.S. president Donald Trump. [7] It has been called a " Twitter clone" that competes with Parler, Gab, and Mastodon in trying to provide an ...

  9. Twitter - Wikipedia

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    Ruby. JavaScript. Python. X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social media website based in the United States. With over 500 million users, it is one of the world's largest social networks and the fifth-most visited website in the world.