Social Media news is big on sensationalism. They want to make you feel like their news is super important at that immediate moment. Many social media sites (like Facebook and Twitter) will post using excessive exclamation points and emphasize unnecessary events or details. Exaggeration of news interests' readers and is what drives the views on posts. The way people write, all capitalized words, exclamation points, and exaggerated headlines they are bound to get many views.
These are the types of news that come from the tabloid. This type of news if commonly found on Facebook and “is more likely to zero in on a sensational crime story or celebrity gossip,” as said by ThoughtCo.com. Seeing this all over Facebook is likely to cause a lack of thoughtful news.
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