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  2. Social impact of YouTube - Wikipedia

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    The American online video sharing and social media platform YouTube has had social impact in many fields, with some individual videos of the site having directly shaped world events. It is the world's largest video hosting website [2][3] and second most visited website according to both Alexa Internet [4] and Similarweb, [5] and used by 81% of ...

  3. Social media platforms engaged in 'vast surveillance' and ...

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    Even though most social media platforms require teens to be at least 13 to create accounts, people can easily lie about their age and the platforms collect data from teens in the same way they do ...

  4. Social media influencers descend on the White House, where ...

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    Social media influencers got the royal treatment at the White House on Wednesday as President Joe Biden gave a nod to their ability to hold sway with millions of loyal followers. The White House ...

  5. 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 creators .

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

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    Still, some online pointed out the impact that an influencer can make with a single social media post: One GoFundMe campaign reached its $200,000 goal less than 24 hours after TikTok creator Yuval ...

  7. Sensationalism - Wikipedia

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    e. In journalism and mass media, sensationalism is a type of editorial tactic. Events and topics in news stories are selected and worded to excite the greatest number of readers and viewers. This style of news reporting encourages biased or emotionally loaded impressions of events rather than neutrality, and may cause a manipulation to the ...

  8. Why are social media users blocking celebrities and ... - AOL

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    Social media users have since been cutting off celebrities from their bread and butter (aka, online capital) in the wake of the Met Gala, with the help of widely spreading digital campaigns.

  9. Terrorism and social media - Wikipedia

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    Terrorism and social media. Terrorism, fear, and media are interconnected. Terrorists use the media to advertise their attacks and or messages, and the media uses terrorism events to further aid their ratings. Both promote unwarranted propaganda that instills mass amounts of public fear. The leader of Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, discussed ...