Personally I would choose #2, but they're both good. So you could do something like
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Social media outlets such as T w i t t e r are similar to a newspaper back in time. It has images/current events/news/etc.
Or you could do #1!
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A lot of Columbus books published back in the day would not be the same now, being that modern day revisionism has altered the ideas and tried to put censorship on a lot of events in modern history.