Criterion 4: Reading and Writing Activity IV

According to this article, most of the teens get their information from social media. Such as Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc. Misinformation is like fake news or news that are not true. The article says that sometimes, not only the young people but the adults, believe or create misinformation, and that social media can be surrounded by lies. Jamie Withorne, a research assistant at the Middlebury Institute Center for Nonproliferation Studies, says that memes are a very important player on the news consumption of the young people. She also says that memes can be a comfort to them, because this internet jokes are familiar and don’t have the international tension on them. Politifact is like a way to say that you don’t have a website running by journalists. Then we have the CNN 10, and this is an online news program that can explain the news of the day in 10 minutes. “Memes] are a valuable tool not only for young people but also for national security practitioners.” This statement it’s not all right, because memes are valuable sometimes not always. They can be hurtful and really dangerous when you use it the wrong way. My friends get their news from the news on TV and on the social media. The social media is not that bad, because it doesn’t lie all the time, they also tell the truth. I get news mostly from the news on TV and other times from the social media. Like I said social media help a lot, when it comes to some of the problems in the world.

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