Have you ever received some information from your parents or friends? Often they will tell you that is very urgent and you should really pay attention to it. However, when you browse the Internet you will end up finding these things are just unauthenticated rumors or even fake news.
In fact, this is a thing that we should really pay attention to. Eli Saslow reported an issue in his article "How lies become truth in online America." In this article, he reveals that several people are posting short messages and blogs containing totally made-up information. At first, readers can distinguish those from true news, and thus they only treat those as jokes. As time flies, however, those writers improve their writing proficiency. Their posts are more and more similar to works by professional journalists and scientists. At this stage, people lose the ability to evaluate the accuracy of the posts and may believe them more easily.
Also, there is a tendency that people are more willing to support opinions similar to theirs. Saslow indicates in his article that rumors about Donald Trump and Clinton Hillary are very popular and be more easily treated as real news though a large amount of news does not seem so trustworthy. This suggests that people will not doubt the accuracy of the articles when they find them supportive, because we can easily tell that people take them seriously.
In this case, people are vulnerable to mass information. We must pay more effort to fortify the facticity of any resources. Bad resources may also trigger worries and panic of the public. Therefore, in this age of rumors, do not believe what you believe, check it first.
Your post does a good job of putting the reading and information from it that forms your argument at the front and using an example to back up this stance afterwards. It might make the reading easier and less intimidating if the paragraphs were spaced out a little more, this could even be achieved by adding supporting graphics between them. I believe it also might be a decent idea to tie in another example that the readings themselves don't use.
ReplyDeleteI am attracted by your title, I have the same feeling that most of the things in your mind is what you want to believe, not they are right, because you are doing it or you think they are right. I think for the improvement of this post, I recommend you to related more reading we did in the class and find more information to support your ideas.
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