By Terreil Colon
Social media is a technology tool that enables people to exchange information, communicate ideas, and engage in various forms of expression online. The internet is used by 4.6 billion people, or 50% of the world's population, for a range of activities. The Social Dilemma is a documentary that explores the problems and potential uses of social media. It provides instances of how these platforms may be used to profit from users' addictions. Additionally, it includes how misinformation is used to manipulate a person's emotional and behavioral attitudes. Inaccurate or deceptive information is called misinformation. It is distinct from disinformation, which is willfully false information. If you have a keen eye and look for these certain things in that set of facts, you can spot misinformation. The article titled “How Misinformation spreads on social media-And what to do about it” by Chris Meserole summarizes what misinformation is and how to watch out for it. According to the article, misinformation can be avoided by keeping an eye out for revisions and preventing the spread of false information farther into the statement. Also, try to stop modifying the statement with terms like "not." Social media is a very popular network right now, but you still need to exercise caution when it comes to reading the information that it distributes. It is due to media bias that you can watch the news or read an article and learn one thing, but learn a completely different thing somewhere else. The best or ultimate answer, however, centers on people. Our personal interests and ideas shouldn't become more important than other individuals. Demanding online news and their algorithms shouldn’t be able to feed into our impulses as well as our interests. This is the main thing I warn people to be on the lookout for while using the internet since news is a highly powerful tool and reading inaccurate information may seriously alter your perspective of the world.
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Lynn Girven
2/28/2023 04:14:14 pm
Reading and believing wrong "information" causes more problems than being a savvy consumer of information.
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