How social media was used and abused in the 2016 election

Why are so many people invested in how social media portrays political news? It’s because in the early stages social media posts from political candidates were not handled correctly. It also goes into how it was fixed after controversy struck many platforms.

This is an example of what kind of tweets were used and spread on social media. These kinds of tweets sparked outcry from the public which caused it to spread around, even to those who did not want to participate in elections.

This is the start of how twitter handled political ads after controversy of paid ads and interference of third parties.

This is the end result of how Twitter now looks into claims and warns viewers that a claim may be untrue, or that they are under review. This gave many viewers peace of mind that the information they were being shown was at least somewhat true.

This video goes over how Facebook and other social networks impacted the election spread of news and other factors.

The second video goes over how social media impacted the 2016 election in terms of how people got their news and how it spread good and bad news. The gif shown above shows one of the many claims that candidates made.

In conclusion, political ads really did cause a headache for many people who were shown things that they did not want to see or were simply untrue. The tweets showed the progression of this problem starting and how platforms handled controversy and issues with these kinds of ads and the spread of false information that was shown as true. Many news outlets picked up any kind of information, true or false to report on. Lastly the American bar reported their findings and multiple news outlets finally dealt with the spread of misinformation and devious ads by telling their audience to use fact checkers and just paying attention to what claims were being made.

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