Draft:Social media in the 2024 United States presidential election

Social media has played a major role in the 2024 United States presidential election. The expanded utilization of online media channels among candidates in the 2016 and 2020 elections continued as both Democratic and Republican candidates attempted to build an online base.

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Former president Donald Trump, notorious for his social media use during his political campaigns and throughout his presidency, had many of his social media accounts suspended as a result of his rhetoric surrounding the January 6 United States Capitol attack, with many sites citing violations of policies against inciting violence or spreading election misinformation. These included major platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, the latter of which was his most primarily used account, amassing an audience of over 88.9 million followers at the time of his suspension.

v t e Media and human factors
Cognitive psychology Externality Evolutionary psychology Behavioral modernity Cognition Mismatch Media psychology Media studies Social psychology
Media practices	Betteridge's law of headlines Gatekeeping "If it bleeds, it leads" Infotainment Human-interest story Junk food news Least objectionable program Soft media Media bias Media manipulation Pink-slime journalism Propaganda Public relations Missing white woman syndrome News values Sensationalism Hot take Spiking Tabloid television Yellow journalism
Attention	Attention economy Attention inequality Attention management Attention span Chumbox Clickbait Cognitive miser Low information voter Digital zombie Phubbing Doomscrolling Human multitasking Media multitasking Mobile phones and driving safety Smartphones and pedestrian safety Texting while driving Influence-for-hire Infodemic Information explosion Information overload Information pollution Information–action ratio One weird trick Rage farming Screen time Binge-watching Television consumption Sticky content
Cognitive bias/ Conformity	Availability cascade Availability heuristic Bandwagon effect Confirmation bias Crowd psychology Mobbing Moral panic Mean world syndrome Negativity bias Peer pressure Social-desirability bias Social influence bias Spiral of silence
Digital divide/ Political polarization	Algorithmic radicalization Youth Echo chamber Fake news website Post-truth politics United States Filter bubble Knowledge divide Knowledge gap hypothesis Political polarization in the United States Social media use in politics United States 2016 U.S. presidential election 2020 U.S. presidential election
Related topics	Computer rage Criticism of Facebook 2021 Facebook company files leak Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal Criticism of Netflix Cultural impact of TikTok Digital media use and mental health Effects of violence in mass media Fascination with death Griefer Mass shooting contagion Psychological effects of Internet use Sealioning Social aspects of television Social bot Social impact of YouTube Technophilia Neophile Technophobia Violence and video games

Draft:Social media in the 2024 United States presidential election

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Democratic primaries edit

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