While social media provides an array of options to connect and expand with others, there should be limitations as to how we use these platforms. Many people have and continue to use social media as their main way of gathering information. Although you may gain some knowledge off these platforms, using them for means such as political knowledge may not be the route to go. In a research article by Amy Mitchell, social media has become a mainstream way of gaining political news. The article depicts that these Americans using social media to gain political news, while informed, tend to take the news they gained less seriously due to reading it off social media, and are " less aware and knowledgable about a wide range of events and issues in the news". While social media platforms are mainstream and used by majority of people, when searching for information pertaining to serious topics such as political news, other options must be taken into account to receive factual and trustworthy political current news. The article further shows statistics in regard to political news knowledge, when taking into account which means one used to gain knowledge. The statistics showed that those who use social media as their main means of news conduction are far more less politically knowledgeable than those who use platforms such as the news or radio. Overall, I believe many need to adjust how they gain political news rather than just use social media to gain any knowledge.
Research article:https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2020/07/30/americans-who-mainly-get-their-news-on-social-media-are-less-engaged-less-knowledgeable/
Hi! I agree with you that many people need to gain their political news rather than just use social media to gain knowledge. Social media has confuse a lot of people and has given them false information to individuals when it comes down to politics or anything. I suggest people do the research themselves and watch the news themselves to give them an idea on who they think they should vote for.
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