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There is something about social media that makes it automatically trustworthy. We follow the people we look up to, the people that we are friends with, our families, and plenty more. This may make social media immediately trustworthy, right?
Wrong.
Americans believe that two-thirds of news on social media is misinformation. According to Poynter Americans believe that 39% of news on television is misinformation but it was even higher according to social media which is a 65% rate of disbelief. Social media is considered to be more biased and less accurate than the news.
Which is believable and just proves the ethical code that journalists must follow. Social media is for fun and games, not actual information. Social media can not be maintained and organized as journalism is. Therefore, it does not have to follow the ethical codes that journalists do.
Trust is extremely important regarding news, so it is best to not get information from social media due to the opinionated bias that is not allowed to be presented in regular journalism due to the code of ethics.
The only codes that social media follows would be providing ads and revealing that they are ads. Someone such as a social media influencer gets paid to promote different products or companies which later gets a great amount of attention, since typically the influencer is "rich and famous."
Someone such as a Youtube personality named David Dobrik often refers to SeatGeek in his Youtube vlogs (video blogs) because they help him to purchase cars for his friends or tickets for Superbowl games.
We see influencers following this rule because of their status and payment for promoting the product or company.
Among trust and proper advertisement there are a plethora of other ethical codes, but these are possibly the codes that regular social media users do not take part in which causes the lack of trust from "normal" users.
Do we as humans utilize the ethical code that journalists use, or no?
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