... covered how Ukrainian soldiers crucified a child in front of its mother's eyes. Later, this story was proved to be fake, and there was neither a killed child, nor shocked mother. Still, the story went viral. It had reached a much broader audience on social mediathan it did on television.
The authors refer to that story as "an example of Kremlin-backed disinformation campaign." The authors of the report continued to state that "
in subsequent years, similar tactics would again be unleashed ...
... compression of our spatial and temporal worlds…making us more immoral than schizophrenic in the process (p. 154).”
Although social media has broadened interpersonal interactions in technical dimensions, it has degenerated the human moral compass through ... ... sites of undisclosed nuclear facilities, began simultaneously with the technological domination of space by then rivals the USA and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. The looming weaponization of space, on the other hand, will make a more direct utilization ...
... Language of Memes
Since practically anyone can express their political views through provocative posts, trolling and memes on social media, this behaviour turned into a general trend, one which
politicians were quick to embrace, filling their official ... ... such an important event as the imposition of sanctions on a country, an event that could affect the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. Memes are not the exclusive domain of the President of the United States. Embassies and other world leaders ...
... will come a time when grandparents will tell their grandchildren stories of what politics were like without memes. Even today, memes have become so commonplace that it seems they have always been present in our life. They are everywhere: starting with social media to newspapers headlines, from business to politics. Though the meme was initially a product of the entertainment industry, today this phenomenon is widely used in political communication. Since there are several standard definitions of “meme”,...
... electoral college structure. However, months after Donald Trump was declared President of the United States, questions remain about the legitimacy of the U.S. elections. The central issues are the emergence and use of so-called ‘Fake News’ and the accusation that Russia, through espionage and online hacking operations, sought to influence the presidential elections to promote Donald Trump and denigrate the reputation of Hillary Clinton.
The issues thrown up in the wake of the U.S. presidential election ...
