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Social Media Use & Covid-19


Social Media Use & Covid-19


The media is the prime way for us to receive information updates on the coronavirus. We rely on the news and social media outlets to inform us about what is going on within our world today, especially nowadays with the Covid-19 outbreak. We need to pay very close attention to the media in order to keep our society safe. However, what if I told you that social media platforms are not the best way to stay updated on the virus.

According to this article, social media platforms are actually making the spread of the coronavirus worse because they are accidentally spreading misinformation. People are able to write their thoughts, feelings, and opinions on all social media platforms. Social media is all about expressing yourself and what you are feeling in the present time. Today, people are expressing their thoughts and opinions on the coronavirus and how the virus is making them feel. The public on social media is believing these thoughts and opinions as factual information. People are using only social media to get updates on the virus, and the reality is that only going to make things worse. The misinformation on social media is giving people the wrong idea of how to protect themselves and stay safe from the virus. Twitter is a huge platform for misinformation. Twitter gets over 1000 tweets a minute about the coronavirus. Some tweets may include factual information, but mostly they do not. If social media platforms continue to have coronavirus myths and misinformation on their site, it can be very dangerous to society and can lead society to develop more contagious coronavirus cases.

I feel that social media platforms need to promote factual information on their sites. I feel social media platforms can do this by having advertisements about the virus be linked to credible sources so people can click on them and really become informed about the virus and how it is affecting our society. I believe that it is the social media platforms' responsibility to make sure that they promote factual information and try to keep misinformation of their sites. It is their website, so it is their job to encourage people to educate themselves on the virus that has changed our world upside down. I personally believe by advocating factual information to the public, social media platforms could potentially save lives. We need individuals to really focus on only looking at factual information because it is the only way they can guarantee their safety from this virus. Misinformation will only put individuals at risk of getting the virus, then keep them safe from it.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kevinmurnane/2018/03/03/which-social-media-platform-is-the-most-popular-in-the-us/#5223443d1e4e
https://www.forbes.com/sites/helenleebouygues/2020/04/02/going-viral-how-social-media-is-making-the-spread-of-coronavirus-worse/#4596d5a241b2


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