Social Media's Role In Presidential Campaigns

In a like manner, Candidates use social media for the majority of their announcements. In fact, republican Jeb Bush used snapchat to announce his very own presidential campaign. In the same way, Rand Paul made ads for snapchat that talked about his views on the U.S taxes code. Another example of this is when Donald Trump used periscope to announce his running for presidency. A vast majority of candidates know, in order to be in the public eye it must involve social media in someway (Brousell,2016)
Even though the candidates play a strong role in their place on social media, some social media companies actually take part in this too. Evidently Snapchat hired a former CNN reporter Peter Hamby, to be the leader of their news reports. Snapchat
has really been a game changer in getting the younger people educated on what's going on in the election world. They do this, and also support the candidates all while making extra money, it's seems to be that everyone wins. Snapchat has evolved from just an ordinary social media outlet to a huge source information (Brousell,2016).
Snapchat isn't the only social media wanting in on the presidential elections, but also other sources like, twitter, instagram, facebook and more. For example twitter actually is trying to give politicians more freedom of speech. They are trying to accomplish this by shutting down two websites so far, where anyone can see politicians deleted tweets. Whether or not this is a helpful or harmful thing is for the people to decide. Nonetheless these billionaire companies are trying to get in on the action in anyway they possibly can. (Brousell,2016)