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I plan to dive into the topic of the propaganda technique known as card stacking because I find it pervasive in today’s media and news landscape. Card stacking involves selectively presenting details of an issue, highlighting positive aspects while downplaying or ignoring negative elements. This technique is prevalent in advertisements, social media, news reporting, and…

Reddit: In April of 2020 Reddit installed a new program aimed at curbing misinformation. As more individuals seek news and information on social media platforms and online discords, Reddit saw a mass influx of misinformation being shared and consumed on the platform. The new misinformation report category was added to, what they call, a ‘subreddit.’…

Stop – Upon first encountering this tweet, I immediately recognized the author, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene. Greene, a prominent Republican politician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives, often serves as a source for political news. However, I paused to acknowledge the inherent bias evident in the tweet. It seemed clear that the tweet…

In the battle against misinformation, educational tools play an important role in empowering people to distinguish fact from fiction. In this blog post, I will talk about two tools. First, the News Literacy Project’s Rumor Guard service and the game “Bad News.” Rumor Guard is a service provided by the News Literacy Project aimed to…

To begin the blog, students are asked to track a day in the life of media consumption. I chose to track my media consumption today, March 22nd. I found the media I consume very intriguing because as I work full time I have been consuming less media. Although the media mostly consume I feel is…

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