The danger of using unknown sources in social media

Abstract

Anonymizing the sources is a source of professional and ethical concern in news reporting, given that concealing sources necessarily means an upcoming danger related to that source, whether it is a government, institutions, or influential people, and the public may be dealing with a torrent of media today from various points of view. Receiving and communicating, whether traditional media or digital publishing means (websites, electronic newspapers, blogs, mass media, social media), in light of the spread of the media, which is considered the most prominent throughout the history of the development of means of communication, which has become a major presence in the formation of today’s societies, in Its ability to reduce space, time, and gravity until it was called (media society, cognitive society, digital society), so that the era in which societies live can be described as the era of social communication.