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In Class Activity:

We plan to add the information of propaganda being used in different types of media outlets. I plan to add information on propaganda in Facebook, such as the topic of "fake news" that is constantly talked about between the two political groups. Plan to add information about the use of propaganda in Snapchat news outlets and magazine subscriptions. Also to add information from Facebook and more from Twitter discussing the propaganda in the political point of view.

Wikipedia Edit:

Propaganda on Facebook
Facebook has made huge impact on society by allowing thousands 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. 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 also uses the usages of 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 Syrian civilians caused by the Assad regime.

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. 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."