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Digital technology is overtaking traditional sources of information like newspapers, radio and television, and social media is now growing as a popular news source. It’s accessible through computers and smartphones for quick access to the latest news. Many users share the latest news and updates, further extending audience exposure.

Facebook leads social network in terms of users and as a news source. Facebook posts can link to a specific article and provide website referrals. The online articles and stories can be shared through Facebook, and comments can be made. Conversations ensue, and some stories go viral, reaching broad audiences. Many news sources have their own Facebook business accounts to post their stories to the public.

YouTube is a way to get news through videos, and the video links can be shared on other social media platforms. It’s a valuable news pathway, with nearly half the population using this social media platform. It’s also used for entertainment, such as music videos, exercise videos and demonstration videos for DIY projects.

Twitter and Instagram

Twitter is another social media news source. The following on Twitter isn’t as large as on Facebook and YouTube, but social media is an evolving industry. Tweets give snippets of news information to Twitter followers, and links can be included to redirect the user to a more lengthy news story. Tweets can also be shared. Instagram is a picture-sharing social media platform that can be used to share news as well.

Smartphone Apps

Smartphone apps for social media and news sources are another way to get news when it first becomes available. The user clicks on an icon to be directed to the desired platform. Researchers have discovered that about half of the people in the U.S. obtain news on their smartphones. Smartphones can also be set up to receive breaking news alerts.

Types of News

The types of news articles shared on social media vary. Entertainment, sports and community news rank high on the list, while government, politics, international news and crime stories are also popular news items. Weather, traffic and business news are also read and shared regularly. In recent times, readership has changed to the extent that many news sources are posting links to their articles directly on social media themselves.

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Vintage-look social media propaganda posters are awesome.

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I’m a sucker for anything retro.

I’ve noticed a recent trend among designers and artists to combine a vintage look with current messaging, and I wholeheartedly approve. And, one of the most creative ways I’ve seen this done is through the use of old-school propaganda posters as a platform. They’re fun, colorful, have interesting art, and the propaganda message makes for some amusing and creative copywriting. ( A favorite iteration of this trend involves one of the objects of my geek affection, Battlestar Galactica . *cough* TheseMightBeHangingInMyHouse *cough*)

But, since we’re all about not fighting Cylons here at AOR, let’s take a look at something more appropriate to share in this venue …like this: Graphic designer Aaron Wood made some vintage-look social media propaganda posters  that rock. And BONUS KISMET, I found them on Twitter, because that is how things work.

Wood has some other really amazing designs as well…and no I don’t know him, nor did he pay me to say this. He’s just a really talented dude who knows how to make things this girl loves. So Say We All.

Let me know what you think!

See our  recent work here . And don’t hesitate to  reach out .

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Social media posts the new propaganda posters

For all the benefits wrought by the information revolution, social media has become a tool of dictators. Its profit-driven, surveillance-based business model favours those with deep pockets and deadly motives. In the first of two articles, cybersecurity expert and human rights activist Manal al-Sharif suggests way to invent the digital world for the better.

9 November 2021 | Manal al-Sharif MW Media

In 2021, two women have shaped the public discourse around social media. Frances Haugen, the ‘‘Facebook whistleblower’’, gave the world evidence of what researchers had long been warning about. Then, in the Philippines, Maria Ressa, a journalist who investigated for years how politicians are weaponising Facebook to undermine democracies, won the Nobel Peace Prize. They and others present an urgent case for reclaiming agency over our digital lives.

According to Freedom House , only one in three of us worldwide live under a democratic political system – meaning that two-thirds of the world are either living under authoritarian conditions or moving towards them. 2020 marked the 15th consecutive year of declining global freedom and rising authoritarianism. 2020 also marked 14 years since the opening of Facebook to the public and 13 years since the launch of the iPhone. Is this a mere coincidence? While the proliferation of smartphones and social media is often lauded for simplifying our access to information, a closer look reveals a more complex picture.

Digitised lives without digital rights

During the Covid-19 lockdowns in 2020 and 2021, the world spent a vast amount of time online. Almost every aspect of our lives was digitised, from the classroom to the doctor’s clinic. Around this time, a close family member of mine announced that dinosaurs were a conspiracy to sell cinema tickets and that flat earth theories were worthy of consideration. To be clear, this was not a young child but a grown adult engineer who has lived in five countries and speaks four languages. Unfortunately, in the ‘‘fake news’’ era, it cannot be assumed that anyone has the tools, to tell the truth from the lies.

Around that same time, one of my close friends in the US told me she was losing her father to political conspiracy theories and misinformation. “He’s been radicalised,” she said. “I don’t recognise him anymore. He’s been consumed by anger and hate.”

“A lie told a million times becomes a fact”

It is not just my friends and family who are succumbing to falsehoods. Maria Ressa, a Filipino-American journalist, uses the above quote by Joseph Goebbels to demonstrate how some politicians are abusing social media in the Philippines, where some 97% of the population have a Facebook account. 

In her investigative journalism work, Maria exposed the manipulation of social media platforms by savvy actors for the purpose of undermining democracies, harassing opponents, spreading misinformation, and faking the popularity of political actors. She is primarily known for her criticism of Facebook, which she has dubbed “the murderer of democracy”.

Facebook was weaponised, and the first people who were attacked were journalists. I watched democracy crumble in about six months in the Philippines. Maria Ressa – Nobel Peace Prize winner

In 2021, Maria was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her efforts to safeguard the freedom of expression. As a fellow activist, I consider this an important acknowledgment by the global community of the modern dangers of standing against oppression facilitated by tech. You risk sacrificing your reputation, income, friends, and freedom, not to mention your mental health.

The science of a viral post

Research has found that content that goes viral is partially driven by physiological arousal. Content that evokes high-arousal positive (awe) or negative (anger or anxiety) emotions is more likely to go viral. Conversely, content that evokes low-arousal or deactivating emotions (e.g. sadness) is less likely to do so.

As such, any post that provokes our lizard brains to react will be shared. When we add in the tendency to hit ‘‘Share’’ before fact-checking, we see the ‘‘social proof’’ phenomenon – the assumption that others’ actions represent the correct response to a given situation – play out before our very eyes. And when we throw in platforms that prioritise growth – of users and time spent on them – we end up with a recipe for disaster.

Social media platforms have an undeniable conflict of interest because they prioritise growth over all else. Facebook’s engagement-based ranking incites misinformation, hate speech, and even ethnic violence. The machine-learning models that maximise engagement also favour controversy, misinformation, and extremism.

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Sock puppets and propaganda wars.

Unfortunately, the current profit-driven, surveillance-based business model of social media platforms gives the advantage to those with the deepest pockets and the greatest understanding of how to exploit this nefarious potential.

Facebook knows us better than our mothers do. Of all the data a business can legally collect about us, Facebook collects 80%. Separately but no less worryingly, about one in five US adults say they get their political news primarily through social media.

Although Facebook requires a verified identity – i.e. a real name and email address – to open an account, it has a loophole that can be successfully exploited. Any account can create ‘Facebook pages’ and use those pages as if they were personal profiles. This means they can use those pages to ‘‘like’’, ‘‘share’’ and ‘‘comment’’, expanding the reach of their preferred content. 

As part of Maria Ressa’s effort to expose how social media has been weaponised, she published a series of articles on her news site Rappler entitled ‘ Propaganda War: Weaponizing the Internet .’ She and her team analysed thousands of Facebook accounts and came to the conclusion that a ‘‘sock puppet’’ network of 26 fake Facebook accounts was influencing nearly 3 million other Philippines-based accounts. Behind the sock puppets were three so-called super trolls. These accounts form the perfect virtual mob. They can spread rumours, ignite hate speech, target opponents, and drown out legitimate content by flooding the network with nonsense trends. Such mobs can also create an illusion of popularity for specific individuals by posting praise, liking, and sharing.

Some say that the Facebook Files revealed nothing new, but this is not true. Previously, most independent research warning of the use of Facebook to interfere in political systems or harm mental health didn’t result in a finding of interference. On the contrary, Facebook was able to shut down many of those independent researchers without repercussion. Now, the leaked documents confirm what the researchers have known for years. They also exposed how Facebook executives were sitting on internal research that proved the harms of their platform, and chose only to fix the parts that could impact their reputation. One of the shocking facts was how 87% of Facebook’s misinformation budget was dedicated to English-speaking content, merely 9% of the whole population of Facebook, leaving countries such as the Philippines, Myanmar and Ethiopia to combat the problem alone.

Today, humanity is facing not only a climate crisis, but a digital crisis about which advocates, activists, and independent researchers have long been sounding the alarm. But, so far, they have mostly been met with doubt and disbelief. Why?

Part of the reason is the normalisation of the “privacy is dead” rhetoric by tech giants. This commodifies the human experience and leaves us feeling that resistance is futile. Tech is both the largest global industry and the least regulated, allowing tech companies to shape our future and our planet with little to no input from citizens and policymakers. With almost all of us now using social media, we face a critical juncture to assert our digital freedoms. I know more than many how crucial these freedoms can be.

A digital future where we are stripped away from our agency is a future that needs to be resisted on all accounts, or we all risk living in a world very similar to Maria’s world as described in her own words: “our dystopian present, is your dystopian future.”

Manal al-Sharif is a women’s rights activist, author, speaker, and a cyber security expert. She was named one of the top 10 world’s digital revolutionaries by Newsweek and one of the top 100 women in tech by Forbes. She writes for the NY Times and the Washington Post. Her Amazon bestseller memoir, Daring to Drive: a Saudi Woman’s Awakening, tells her story of leading the Women’s Right to Drive movement in her home country, Saudi Arabia. This article was published at Michael West Media.

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August 2, 2011 by Eric Dye

We’ve posted some  Star Wars propaganda posters , before, and even some retro styled ads based on social networks ( YouTube ,  Twitter  and  Facebook ).

These posters focus on three major social networks with a propaganda poster flair: Twitter, Facebook and Google+ Plus.

This Facebook poster cracks me up:

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August 2, 2011

That facebook one is classic! My minister actually talked about Gardens of Time and facebook ‘being a friend’ in the sermon on Sunday!

Great posters! Thanks for sharing. Farmville… It has become a culture of it’s own.

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Social Media Propaganda Posters

written by Houke de Kwant on August 15, 2011

I think this is a great set of posters to start a new week with. These social media propaganda posters are made by Justonescarf , a designer from Feeding Hills, MA. There are posters for: Youtube, Foursquare, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Apple and Android.

YouTube Propaganda Poster

Foursquare Propaganda Poster

Facebook Propaganda Poster version 1

Facebook Propaganda Poster version 2

Facebook Propaganda Victory Poster

Twitter Propaganda Poster version 1

Twitter Propaganda Poster version 2

Twitter Propaganda Victory Poster

Google Plus Propaganda Poster version 1

Google Plus Propaganda Poster version 2

Google Plus Propaganda Victory Poster

Apple Propaganda Poster

Android Propaganda Poster

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