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If You Doubt That Social Media Has Changed The World, Take A Look At Ukraine
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregsatell/2014/01/18/if-you-doubt-that-social-media-has-changed-the-world-take-a-look-at-ukraine/#f9c02a74a2c7 The platform mainly used to effect the arab spring was twitter. The methods used were small groups of passionate people to influence the others. -
UK riots 'made worse' by rolling news, BBM, Twitter and Facebook
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/mar/28/uk-riots-twitter-facebook The social media networks used primarily were twitter and facebook. The methods used to effect the riots was just a flood of post. Over 2.6 million post played a role in the violent riots. -
Black Lives Matter: The social media behind a movement
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/black-lives-matter-social-media-movement-160803042719539.html The Social Media platform mostly used to effect the Black Lives Matter movement was Twitter. The tactics they used mostly was a heavy emphasis of negative or sad language, rather than angry language. They noticed that a higher volume of sad tweets and language such as, "we" and "us" led to larger protests the next day. -
Impact of social media on the outcome of the EU referendum
http://www.referendumanalysis.eu/eu-referendum-analysis-2016/section-7-social-media/impact-of-social-media-on-the-outcome-of-the-eu-referendum/ The Social Media Platforms used to effect the results of the EU referendum were instagram, Facebook, and twitter. The way social media impacted the decision was that on most platforms there were nearly 2 times as many brexit supporters than remain supporters and they were nearly 5 times as active. Which helped persuade the young generation. -
How Russia used social media to divide Americans, during the 2016 Election
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/14/russia-us-politics-social-media-facebook Russia used the Social Media platforms Facebook, Google, and twitter. The tactics they used were using bots and trolls to promote pro-trump propaganda and to flood primarily democrat's feeds with controversial topics and create division.
