The Daily Mail: Viral Hoax on Facebook

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The message reads as above. Facebook officials say to just delete the message and that there is not a virus attached to it 
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Viral Hoax on Facebook has been sent many people

Facebook users have been receiving messages saying 'Hi....I actually got another friend request from you yesterday...which I ignored so you may want to check your account.'Hold your finger on the message until the forward button appears...then hit forward and all the people you want to forward too....I had to do the people individually. Good Luck!'. This message has been sent to thousands and there was a worry that it was hacking peoples accounts or taking personal information from Facebook users however, Facebook say that it did not negatively affect anyone, They simply ask that people delete the message if they have received. 

Soft or Hard news?

In my opinion this is not hard news seeing as it did not result in people getting hurt, it has nothing to do politically, economically or environmentally. It is news about a very successful social media sight therefore I see it as soft news.

Why's it appealing 


Immediacy: It happened recently 
Amplitude: It involves a large amount of people seeing as many people were sent this message.
Elite nations and people: Facebook is a well known company so this is why people will be interested and many people use it, if it was a unknown social media site it probably would not be on the Daily Mail.
Personalisation: People who use Facebook will be interested.
Negativity: It is bad news.

To what extent does it reflect the values and ideologies of the newspaper? Is this an example of quality journalism or simply clickbait? 

The Daily Mail is a tabloid which has mostly soft news so this reflects the values and ideologies of the newspaper. This is an example of clickbait in my opinion because people would want to read if they see it is Facebook.



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