but you must cite at least six and no more than ten sources. The majority of your sources must be located using the library databases, although quality sources that you find on the internet are permitted if they have been approved by me. Refer to the guidelines on locating and evaluating sources, found in Modules 6-7, for more information regarding how to properly evaluate source texts. Be sure to carefully review the comments I have made on your weekly writing assignments so far. My comments should lead you in the right direction as you work on drafting your essay. Don’t forget to include a works cited page and to cite all of your sources, including in-text citations, in MLA Style. Please note that your essay should be between 750-850 words.

• Incorporate ideas from the Issue Proposal, Research Worksheet, Annotated Bibliography, and Exploratory Essay Outline, along with any additional research needed, in order to explain a variety of perspectives about an important topic
• Progress through the writing process of drafting, peer reviewing, and revising in order to produce an Exploratory Essay.
• although the direction you take and your perspective on the topic may evolve as you learn more about it through research. The number and type of sources you use in your exploratory essay is up to you,

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MISPERCEPTIONS IN U.S. OFFICIAL RACES 1

Davion Young

Mrs.Christie Mclendon

ENG 1123

March 13 2021

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This paper focuses on social media’s role coverage of the 2012, 2016, and 2021

presidential election United States. The documentation centers main stream of media

reporting that was adverse for all the candidates, however largely trailed Donald Trump’s

program: when informing over Hillary Clinton, reporting mainly dedicated on the several

scandals connected to the Clinton emails and Foundation as observed by researchers such as

Williams et al., (2019). When focused on Trump, major substantive issues, primarily

immigration, were prominent. Certainly, immigration transpired as a dominant subject in the

campaign serving as an important subject for the Trump campaigns.

From the article, there is a revelation that media composition and structure on both the

left and right are quite diverse. The top media on the left and right are rooted in diverse

journalistic and traditional practices. Based on the conservative part, more consideration was

given to the pro-Trump, extremely biased media outlets. On the side of the liberal party, by

contrast, the focus of magnitude was made mainly of longer-position media administrations

submerged in the practices and traditions of impartial journalism. This analysis supports texts

of an article on a division in USA politics that center on the unequal arrangements between

the right and left, instead of reviews that see division as an overall historical occurrence,

focused on technology and other systems that apply over the partisan polarization.

For instance, the Clinton drive to express her campaigns on policy, competence, and

experience positions was overpowered by reporting purported improprieties connected

through the Clinton emails and Foundation. Reporting of Trump-related trade, immigration,

and jobs were better than on his scandals. Immigration appeared as the prominent substantive

matter of the campaigns. Primarily, the Trump campaigns applied a hard-stand

anti-immigration standpoint to differentiate Trump’s field from GOP competitors. Later on,

migration was a segment subject between the right and left. Pro-Trump media foundations

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reinforced this with race-centric, sensationalist reporting of immigration dedicated to

terrorism, crime, disease, and Muslims’ fear.

From the article observations, it infers that solving the American sphere might be

much difficult. Consequently, the more extensively circulated descriptions of the post-truth

instant false news sites looking for Facebook promotion, Russia appealing in the propaganda

battle, or data overload leading tangled voters making them unable to differentiate truths from

an untrue or deceptive passage which these are unpredictable using democratic principles,

and the necessity for interferences to reply to them remains less or more indisputable as noted

by scholars such as Westney, (2020). If profit-determined false news remains the problem,

resolutions like commending Facebook and Google to apply a technical system to ascertain

false news sites to stop them by repudiating them publicizing revenue and reducing their

places’ perceptibility appear on their look, not to clash with democratic principles.

Equally, if a distant authority is looking to affect the democratic procedure by

propagandistic ways, then taking the intelligence society limit how this will be done and

silence it normatively smooth, as emphasized by scholars such as Garrett (2019). If the public

is tangled, then creating instruments will give them fact-proving metrics, whereas they select

and peruse stories might aid. These methods might add to resolving the bewilderment in the

public space; however, the observations infer that they must be checking on the limits of the

main challenge.

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work cited

Garrett, R. K. (2019). Social media’s contribution to political misperceptions in U.S.

Presidential elections. PloS one, 14(3), e0213500.

Williams, H. E., Bowman, S. W., & Jung, J. T. (2019). The limitations of government

databases for analyzing fatal officer-involved shootings in the United States. ​Criminal

Justice Policy Review​, 30(2), 2

Westney, Z. V. (2020). The Social Media Machines: An Investigation of the Effect of Trust

Moderated by Disinformation on Users’ Decision-Making Process. 01-222.