Tag: social media
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Gen Z! Wake Up!!
Do you ever have that feeling you’re drowning in your social feeds? Scrolling and scrolling, unsure of what is real and what is fake? With all the content out there, it’s virtually impossible to decipher the real from the fake. A bold headline from medium.com’s “Distraction Helps Misinformation Spread. Thinking about Accurancy can reduce it,”…
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AI Media Strikes Again!
Remember that previous post about entertaining misinformation? All those AI images were funny, at first… but now, are they being used as means of propaganda? In the last few weeks, former US President Donald Trump was indicted on business fraud charges in New York. The entire internet was on fire as Trump was taken into…
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Media Literacy Games: Fun, fun, fun!
Reading about a subject can get very boring, very quickly… so what better way to learn about misinformation and the tactics people use to spread it by playing a game? I played two games for this experiment: Bad News and Harmony Square. Both games have a similiar layout with prompts that guide you through the…
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The Entertaining Aspect of Misinformation
Fake news! It’s a phrase we have all heard over and over throughout the years, but what does that actually mean? To grasp a deeper understanding, first we must understand and unpack what fake news is. In modern day, it’s a phrase a former president used any time he heard something he didn’t like. Was…
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