User:Julyattitude/sandbox

Lead
"According to the Pew Research Center, 72% of American adults in 2019 used at least one social media site," doesn't seem particularly relevant to this article's lead. I would change this to "Almost half of American adults often or sometimes get their news from social media, according to the Pew Research Center." Perhaps I should just add this second sentence to the lead and leave in the stat about 72% using a social media site?

Relationship to traditional news sources (creating balance and adding reliable sources)
"Some have raised concern over authoritative reliability on account of lenient moderation and the open-access element of these public platforms." Some who? It seems like the source cited in this statement is citing actually doesn't address citizen journalism participation at all, but rather the trust that people have in legacy news media outlets. While the statement most likely is true, this source does not back it up. I've found a source that could potentially discuss the potentials and drawbacks of citizen journalism on social media to make this statement more balanced. I think it's worth mentioning sentences like these to balance the value of citizen journalism on social media: Independent citizen journalists can use social media to expand coverage to places and events professional journalists do not cover. Darnella Frazier, the teenager who filmed George Floyd's murder, was awarded a 2021 Pulitzer Prize for recording the video and sharing it to Facebook. At the same time, I'm not sure if this only fits on the citizen journalism article instead of this one. The viral nature of the video makes me think it is important to include in this article.

I think I'll edit this sentence I added, "Social media also incentivizes individual professional journalists to share their reporting and interact with audiences on social platforms to boost engagement and advance their careers." to Social media incentivizes mainstream news outlets and individual professional journalists to share their reporting and interact with audiences on social platforms to boost engagement. And add this this sentence afterwards, However, most people who consume news on social media report that accessing news is not their main motivation for being on social media, but rather, they see and consume news incidentally. I think this is an important bridge between newsmakers and consumers.

On the talk page, I proposed adding more information after this sentence: "Alternatively, these results could also imply that posts of a more pessimistic nature that are also written with an air of certainty are more likely to be shared or otherwise permeate groups on Twitter." After finding an informative WSJ article as: On Facebook, internal memos revealed that an algorithm built to promote "meaningful social interaction" actually incentivized publishers to promote negative and sensational news. I could potentially mention the historical context that sensational news has always been economically incentivized after or before this sentence, but I would need to find a good source for that.

-- Update: I added this info but the last sentence of this paragraph seems muddled now so I need to go back in and fix that for next draft.

other edits I need to make are adding sources to this section: "effects on individual and collective memory"

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