The Hypodermic Needle model or the Magic Bullet Theory is
used to suggest that social media can influence very large groups of people by
“injecting/”shooting” people with a piece of information distributed using
social media such as newspapers, magazines and the news on the radio or
television.
For example
The radio broadcast of war of the worlds was so convincing to
the listeners it influenced a nationwide panic making people think that there
were actually aliens coming from mars.
But we all know the chances of that happening are a million
to one.
