The Impact of Social Media and Post-Truth in Building Public Opinion Regarding Government Policies: A Model Study Based on the Views of Current Students and Alumni of Rammohan College

Abstract: With the continuous development of the Internet, social networks are emerging and gradually entering everyone's life. Instead of giving peoplea chance to listen, social media platforms allow the truth to get lost in the ocean of information. Lar ge and scattered information makes it difficutfor netizens to immediately detect the truth and purpose. Instead, they are tempted by some interesting information and amomentlaterisactuallymore. As people spend more time in the virtual world, the boundarie s between the virtual world and the real world will continue togrow. Thus, when virtuality becomes a part of reality, a part of virt uality also becomes reality. The position of public opinion in the field of communication media has changed from offline to onli ne. Although it can be determined whether it is necessary or not after considering the impact of social media on online public opinion. Fashion is also about trust in the media and government and the happy life of all citize ns. Therefore, this article discussed the impact of social media on online public opinion in the post-truth era and found that negative social media will promote the creation of truth and the growth of online opinion. That's why it's especially important to carefully steer social media toward some form of success.