Why Facebook Is The World s Most Influential Source Of News

Analyse how the composer of this text uses persuasive language and form (WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?) to argue a perspective on the role of Facebook in presenting news. Use evidence form the text to support your answer Facebook is a worldwide acknowledged social media service, that because of its sheer size, it possesses the ultimate power to influence and potentially morph its user’s perspectives, by simply exposing them to biased articles, headlines and even messages, motivating them to act on what they are displayed with. Author, Farhad Manjoo of the deprecatory article ‘Facebook s bias is built in - and worth watching’, expresses his fear of Facebook’s ability to control the news; ‘Facebook is the world’s most influential source of news’.†¦show more content†¦The metaphor in this phrase, bluntly illustrates the author’s perspective on how Facebook has the level of power and respect, like a mother will have over her children, reiterating the service’s capability in morphing the perspectives of its users, by controlling what news is being displayed to them. Hence Manjoo’s perspective on the increasingly dangerous role Fa cebook has when presenting news, as by doing so the service possesses the ultimate power to shape the thoughts of its users. Explain how this text engages audiences in presenting an argument on the impact of context on social media. In the interview conducted primarily by Peter Lloyd, there are numerous techniques used that instantly clutch the audience’s attention and in doing so provide an argument on how one’s context, specifically Donald Trump’s has influenced his use of ‘social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and even Snapchat’. Donald trump, is a billionaire business magnate who uses technology quite heavily in his line of work. Thusly, because of his vocational context, Trump is accustomed to be a user technology, accounting for his paramount use of social media services for the benefit of his political poll positioning; despite his inferior knowledge and experience in Political science; ‘Could Donald Trump actually do this?’ The rhetorical question instantly clutches the audience’s attention, and poses them with the idea that Donald Trump has a