When I read this week’s topic, I felt that there is something very serious is going to be revealed on me. And when I started to read the articles, I got answers for my curiosities. This week’s topic “Politics, Subversion of Democracy, News (Fake) and Digital Activism” is based on many of the articles, news and reports on how social media platforms are being used by the politicians in order to get their motives fulfilled.
Starting from the article: “Longtime NBC Reporters Quits”, in this article one of the reporter William Arkin stated the mainstream social media as “Prisoners of Donald Trump”. He further stated that his 30 years of career in NBC were the “Trump free” days and now everything is happening as per the requirement of the President. The media has now become puppet in the hands of the politicians.
In one of the memo, he writes, quote, “I find it disheartening that we do not report the failures of the generals and national security leaders. I find it shocking that we essentially condone continued American bumbling in the Middle East and now Africa through our ho-hum reporting.”
In the next article: “The Next Big Focus in the Russia Investigation: Social Media”, it has been stated that for the last nine months, Twitter and Facebook have tried to dodge the intense public scrutiny involved with the investigation into Russian interference in last year’s presidential election. The Congressional investigation are digging in on Russia’s use of Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies to try to influence the 2016 campaign. From both of these articles, what I got to understand that everyone in this world including the politicians are using the social media in order to get their campaigns successful. The social media platforms are considered the most wide spread platforms and are being used by every person of every age.
The CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg gave this statement: “We support Congress in deciding how to best use this information to inform the public, and we expect the government to publish its findings when their investigation is complete”.
My question here to you all is:
What do you think about this campaign?
What are your opinions on the statement of NBC reporter and on the statement of Mark Zuckerberg?
The next article: “Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug? Has enlighten the fact that Mark Zuckerberg now acknowledges the dangerous side of the social revolution he helped started. But is one of the most powerful tool for connection in human history capable of adapting to the world it created.
And the last article named “The Traffic Factories” the report’s premise is that it is impossible to settle these debates until we understand how people and organizations are producing and using the data and how these information gathered by the internet companies are then used by them either in positive or in negative form.
All of this discussion is based on the fact that Internet has made such changings and is being used in various ways that now it is impossible to stop its diversity. The politicians are getting their missions successful by using the media as per their purposes.
I have chosen this week’s news post on the same topic that is being discussed in order to get all of you understand that how much the politics and the politicians are ruling the internet these days.
SOCIAL MEDIA & SOCIETY 
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