{"id":1120,"date":"2016-05-17T01:58:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-17T01:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2024-12-16T00:36:30","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T00:36:30","slug":"social-media-plays-powerful-role-in-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/05\/17\/social-media-plays-powerful-role-in-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media plays powerful role in elections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Nearly three-quarters (74%) of Millennial Democrats who say they are very likely to participate in their state\u2019s primary or caucus learned about the 2016 presidential election through a social networking site.&nbsp;This is starkly higher than the 50% of Millennial Republicans&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2016\/02\/09\/among-millennials-engaged-in-primaries-dems-more-likely-to-learn-about-the-election-from-social-media\/\">Among Millennials engaged in primaries, Dems more likely to learn about the election from social media<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My observation &#8211; before I read this study &#8211; is that Democrats and left-leaning groups largely own <em>social media<\/em> propaganda efforts, with relatively little high-quality propaganda coming from Republicans or right-leaning groups. This might be a factor in the results of the survey, shown above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless of political affiliation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.journalism.org\/2016\/02\/04\/the-2016-presidential-campaign-a-news-event-thats-hard-to-miss\/\">social media is a dominant source of information about the 2016 presidential election<\/a>. Social media is also largely dominated by very loud, often wrong, propaganda messaging efforts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly three-quarters (74%) of Millennial Democrats who say they are very likely to participate in their state\u2019s primary or caucus learned about the 2016 presidential election through a social networking site.&nbsp;This is starkly higher than the 50% of Millennial Republicans&#8230; Source: Among Millennials engaged in primaries, Dems more likely to learn about the election from social media My observation &#8211; before I read this study &#8211; is that Democrats and left-leaning groups largely own social media propaganda efforts, with relatively&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2016\/05\/17\/social-media-plays-powerful-role-in-elections\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}