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Facebook has made huge impact on society by allowing millions of people to communicate with their family and friends, and be able to keep up-to-date with the rest of the world. But the usage of Facebook leads to the activity of propaganda online and for companies to use to be able to get there product to specific people that would be interested in there products based off of what they like and share. For example, the Facebook pages of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces in 2013 and 2014, uses images to promote their agendas relating to politics during the conflicts following 2011 uprisings in Syria. Their government uses visual frames to help support the image that President Assad is a "fearless leader protecting its people and that life has continued normally through Syria," and to help strengthen the images of the violence and sufferings of the civilians caused by the Assad regime. Many groups like ISIS and other groups of the sort use Facebook to recruit people to join there cause, They use propaganda and many other ways to try and persuade people into believing what they believe or think like they do. Many politicians use faceboook to get people to discuss politics and try and get their political partys more out there. For example in south america of the political parties use facebook to get discussions started and debates, they also are using it to share political information in new ways.

There is also research that "cloaked" Facebook accounts are behind the creation of spreading political propaganda online to "imitate the identity of an opponent so they can spark hateful and aggressive reactions" from the media and the opponent. The process goes after a case study on a Danish Facebook pages that are cloaking their pages to resemble radical Islamist pages to help "[provoke} racist and anti-Muslim reactions as well as negative sentiments towards refugees and immigrants in Denmark." The research founded on the pages analyzes the challenges of propaganda online, such as epistemological, methodological and conceptual challenges. Racism is another big topic that is forced onto people trying to persuade them to think the way that they think. The information also adds to the reader's "understanding of disinformation and propaganda in an increasingly interactive social media environment and contributes to a critical inquiry into social media and subversive politics."