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Are social Influencers responsible for their content?


     The modern world is in the era of freely accessible information on a variety of media platforms. Meanwhile, some of the news broadcasts may be censored or monitored for the content such as lexicon used, the visual support, video, and audio accompaniment, still, some of the informative contents might be transmitted differently. As Instagram became the broad media platform for the expression of opinion, for the show of one's life, one's experience, stories, and advice, it also became the way of interaction of one person or organization with the big audience that sometimes might be 15k followers, 100k, or even 1 million.
     Therefore, the issue of social responsibility - and that is the influence, motivation, propaganda, commercial, attitude, call on the action, etc - became a topic to be discussed. As all people are different and more to that they are individuals with their characters, some of them are vulnerable and sensitive to the broadcasted content, and some may remain subjective and respectful to others' points of view. The influencers, or bloggers, tend to show their life (lifestyle), travel information, educational context, beauty, and others; all these they transmit in order to share their thoughts and experience to the audience, mostly certain one as it depends on the interests of people who follow the certain page.
      However, do these "famous" people with the audience of 100k+ viewers take responsibility for what and how they show certain information? Especially now, on the ongoing pandemic and appropriate restrictions within the society. Should these public figures be restricted or guarded somehow for the actions and emotions they show or call on? If they are the people whose behavior might be copied as an example, should they have some responsibilities? The essence of such a raised topic is to point out that some personal behavior of that particular person might be copied by more than one follower which may result in negative consequences sometimes.
     Being a person with subjective opinion and at the same time broadcasting this to a  wide group of people it is important to remember that the information might be acquired differently, therefore, they should still be careful what and how they do it. Following, for us, as the audience, it is significant to remember that we are who we are with our own life and experience and we need to filter the news we get to. Let's discuss it further together

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