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Name: Francisco Solis Ailon

Topic: Social media is harmful

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Source number: 4
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Citation for Works Lena Felton.”TEENAGE GIRLS ORGANIZED THE LARGEST

Cited Page: PROTEST IN NASHVILLE. THEY JOINED A LONG HISTORY
OF ACTIVIST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN”CommaLit.
https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/teen-girls-organized-nash
ville-s-largest-protest-they-joined-a-long-history-of-black-wom
en-activists. Accessed Nov. 19, 2021

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They contacted the Nashville section of Black (Felton, 1 Social networks are also the cause of controversy and
Lives Matter, which posted about Teens 4 para. 5) protests.
Equality on its social media channels and offered
advice to the girls, asked for donations, and
investigated past protests, noting what had
worked and what. no. Thomas said her mom
"trusted" her and "let her take care of it."
Howard, a professor at the University of Iowa, (Felton, 1 Social networks are a tool for those who seek controversy
says that social media has a lot to do with the para. 21) since they can publish as much as they want.
current organizing that's going on across the
country. The girls were able to meet through
Twitter, which has become "a tactical tool for
organizing people," she says.

“As teens, we are tired of waking up and (Felton, 1 social media can cause deaths or suicides
seeing another innocent person being slain in para. 17)
broad daylight,” she said. “As teens, we are
desensitized to death because we see videos
of black people being killed in broad daylight
circulating on social media platforms. As
teens, we feel like we cannot make a
difference in this world, but we must. "

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Citation for Works Alison Pearce Stevens. The Power of ‘LIKE’ CommonLit.
Cited Page: https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/the-power-of-like.
Accessed Nov. 19, 2021

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What's more, seeing posts with lots of likes (Stevens, 1 bad posts and young people seeing it might encourage them
activates the reward system in our brain. It can para. 21) to do such a thing
also reduce the viewer's self-control. And
alcohol-related posts can encourage teens to
drink. That means what you like online has the
power to influence not just what others like,
but even what they do.

Clicking “like” is a simple act that can have (Stevens, 1 a like can cause bad publicity to be popular
complex results. In fact, a single like can have para. 15)
a big impact on a post’s popularity and reach,
say Maria Glenski and Tim Weninger. These
computer scientists work at the University of
Notre Dame in Indiana.

The important take-home message here, (Stevens, 1 Seeing a post with lots of likes can change teens' attitudes.
Boyle says, is that what students see on social para, 29)
media can influence their attitudes about
drinking. "The problem with social media is
that posts can distort reality," says Boyle.
Social media users only see the highlights of
the party. These are the posts that others like.
However, people rarely post photos of their
hangovers, poor grades, or drinking-related
injuries and accidents, she notes.
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Citation for Works Maria Temming”ON TWITTER, FAKE NEWS HAS GREATER ALLURE
Cited Page: THAN TRUTH DOES” CommonLit.
https://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/on-twitter-fake-news-has-
greater-allure-than-truth-does. Accessed Nov. 19, 2021

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Fake news refers to stories based on false or (Temming, 1 social networks can make a rumor or a false news towards a
misinterpreted information. These stories try to para. 2) person or towards a company
dupe readers into believing something that
isn’t true. Some might try to make public
figures look bad or claim people did something
they didn’t. Others might try to discredit
scientific findings. Such stories are often
shared on social media platforms such as
Twitter and Facebook. But scientists have
lacked data on how widely they were shared,
or by whom. So a team of researchers decided
to investigate.

Overall, these data show, fake news was (Temming, 1 fake news can be very viral but real news is not and this is a
about 70 percent more likely to be retweeted para. 7) big problem as many people will believe fake news
than was real news. The team reported its
results in the March 9 Science.
Roy's team also wanted to know who was (Temming, 1 bots are programs that can pretend to be human and this is
responsible for spreading fake news. They para. 8) bad for humans as bots can be created many and can spread
then looked at the Twitter accounts that were any fake news
involved in sharing fake stories. Some had
been run by computers, not people. These
so-called web robots, or bots, are computer
programs that pretend to be human. They are
designed to find and spread certain types of
stories.

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