Social medias especially Twitter and Facebook are on the spotlight for the European Parliament elections, 2019 which is going to be held between 23 and 26 May 2019.

Since the EU elections approach, researchers have been looking at the role that social networks are playing , as well as their early vigilant verdict is that the level of misuse is comparatively minimal.

Research by the Oxford Internet Institute found that what ít called “junk news” was less common on Twitter and Facebook compared to stories from reputable news websites.

However, the study of the type of information social media users are spreading across seven languages ahead of the vote, did find that individual junk news stories were very likely to be shared on Facebook than the work of popular news enterprises.