Unless more aggressive approaches to targeted misinformation are implemented by social media companies, the ease with which voters are exposed to it may directly skew voting patterns and voter turnout in 2024.
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Law enforcement agents broke down the front door of the familial home of Jack Teixeira, a 21-year-old Massachusetts National Guard airman who is accused of sharing highly sensitive information with a Discord group chat called “Thug Shaker Central.”
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A precarious group, the youth of the Middle East have been described as a revolutionary social class, defined by both their successes and failures during periods of societal unrest and revolution.
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Social media platforms are facing a myriad of criticisms, ranging from accusations of contributing to rising anxiety and suicide rates among American teenagers to profiting from selling personal data and compromising individual privacy. The Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 demonstrated that prominent racial justice and equality movements could be organized through digital activism, which gained widespread support and online engagement. Social media is an instrument of political change, but these changes are dangerously consequential. Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Capitol riots in the United States, and increase in political polarization, the world is abandoning the perception that social media does not significantly impact domestic and world politics.
Read MoreOn December 14, 2016 Edgar Welch open fired fire at a pizzeria in D.C. due to the ‘Pizzagate’ Conspiracy surrounding the establishment.
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Looking back on the use of social mobilization through media in the Egyptian Arab Spring.
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As rival factions continue to decimate Libya’s capital and combatants take up assault rifles and grenade launchers, a new kind of street fighter emerges – the keyboard warrior.
Read MoreCritics say that clicktivist feminist movements would be more effective and well-received if they featured native citizens of the countries in question rather than public figures with little firsthand knowledge of the culture and politics.
Read MoreAfter Volkswagen officially announced the scandal was in fact true, the corporation experienced a plunge in stock prices and reputation. However, that was not all that was in store for the company. Within five hours of the announcement, the Volkswagen hashtag on Twitter accumulated over 3,000 mentions and the brand’s social media following actually grew as a result.
Read MoreYang Zhong, one of the first arrested for publishing rumors online, sparked a large amount of online protest, leading to his release. Also, Tang Hui was sentenced to the “re-education through labor” system after constant petitioning of officials who had not been persecuted. Not only did public outcry lead to her release, but it also led to the abolishment of the “re-education through labor” system in China, according to the New York Times.
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