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June 2015
Friendster shuts down -
September 2015
Snapchat introduces filters and has 100 million users -
2016 US Election and the Fake News Crisis
Russian bots spread false claims and theories about influencers and politicians -
2017 Social Media Rivalry
Facebook and Snapchat compete against each other to be the future of social media as they replicate the others advertising strategies as well as offered features -
2018 #DeleteFacebook
Cambridge Analytica harvested data from 50 million Facebook users without consent. The hashtag was created out of protest but never made a dent in Facebook's numbers -
2019 Insta
Instagram is now the only social media platform that is rising in numbers while others like Snapchat and Facebook are slowly dropping
