I would like to start off by saying that this week’s group presentation was really good. A question that was asked during the discussion was along the lines “ why was Facebook created or what is the use of Facebook” and I would like to answer that. Facebook was originally made for the social aspect but as time went on it is used to get information across to people through a mass. As time went on people tried to find a way to promote things and get people to believe things through the tactic of propaganda and it is effective because it is hard to distinguish fake news from real in a quick fashion. Mark originally didn’t want to add Ads to Facebook but it happened and people are going pay for it and are put up a lot of money so that they can get their ads to the public.
Social Media is a place where people are the most and use it now for jobs and campaigns and more. With this information, terrorist groups are about to use this platform to recruit members of their groups and have people act out crazy and unexpected crimes and think that it is okay.
While reading the articles provided for a week about ISIS, I remember reading an article a few years back about how this guy become an ISIS member through finding it on social media and making it his calling. This is very dangerous because people are reading propaganda ads and believe the message and think that’s the way of thinking. Propaganda is known for its way of taking a message and making it misleading bias and it is effective in messing with people’s minds and thought processes.
In the article “The Humiliation of Katie Hill Offers a Warning” we learn about the Katie Hills’ private photos being legacies by her husband after it was revealed that she was having relations with staffers working on her campaign. Hill was so humiliated that she resigned and decided to divorce her abusive husband . Hill’s has promised to devote her time to fighting nonconsensual pornography: “I refuse to let this experience scare off other women,” she said on the House floor. This just shows how ugly politics can get and how a women’s body can be used as a weapon against her in a world that is run by powerful men. Women fight for rights every day whether small or big but any form of harassment should not be tolerated and should be taken seriously. It sucks that she had to resign but I understand why she did so. It is embarrassing and degrading for the public to see you in that light especially when she is or was a politician. Politics is just so messy and dangerous.
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/11/2/21546327/boarded-up-business-election-day-protests
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I agree, I think that she was right to resign. She probably should not have gotten involved in the first place, but she is also a victim of nonconsensual pornography. I am glad that she is choosing to make the best out of a bad situation to help others. I feel like we need some better laws in place involving social media and privacy. It is so easy to use photos against someone and to find anything out about people by social media and possibly use it against them.
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Hey, I totally agree with your point of view here about Facebook that how Facebook was used in so many propagandas and how the social activism, the mass media have made to realize people that the news is all perfect and genuine. And even at this point, we are unable to differentiate in between a fake and genuine news. And using these the terrorism was spread a lot not only in specific countries but almost around the world. People on the internet see many ads and the propaganda ads were not only misleading but also affect the mind of many people there.
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Hello, what you have found about Facebook and how Facebook is being used over the years in order to spread the false propagandas was not a hidden thing at all. Many of the terrorism groups are using the Facebook in order to spread their ads which are not only misleading but also made people to believe it. What happened with Katie Hill was also another social problem and in every such problem only the women is made victim. What her husband did to her was a very unethical behavior and I must say that the lives of the public faces should not be discussed on the public platforms.
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