Wk 1 Discussion - What is Social Media?

Wk 1 Discussion - What is Social Media?
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Recently, while going through Pinterest, I came across a meme that said: “You said that you’re followers are real, the lie detector showed that you lied.” This meme became very popular all over the world because it had been shared on other social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Whatspp groups. However, other than being funny, the meme made me think a lot about social media followers. In 2018, twitter deleted 10% of its user base (equivalent to 70 million accounts) after discovering that they were fake accounts (Nasim et al., 2019). To put that into perspective, 70 million is equal to the total number of twitter users in the United States. It came to light that people were purchasing fake followers from companies so that they could have a wide reach. Th...