# Filtering, Sept 28
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## Filtering assignment

Overall, all the steps were easy to follow and the folder proved itself quite useful. I then created another rule for Housing and Residential life emails:


This rule required me to place two different email accounts in the "from" section. Both email accounts send important information on housing at Northeastern.

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## In response to the readings:
All the readings brought up interesting points on filtering that I have never noticed, which shows the importance/ danger of filtering. The FS blog makes an interesting point, "We assume that everyone thinks like us, we forget that other perspectives exist". Filters are one of the reasons many people are becoming very close-minded, we are fed information algorithms know we want to consume. Understanding both sides of an issue and welcoming discourse is extremely important but filtering is less and less common.

The Data & Society Article furthers this message by mentioning how people will blatantly disbelieve facts that contradict their opinion: "People believe in information that confirms their priors...they will double down on their beliefs rather than integrate the new knowledge into their understanding." This is a really interesting point the article makes and it is scary because of how true it is. Reading this allowed me to reflect and realize I have been subject to ignoring "hurtful" truths many times. Not believing a news source until my favorite source mentions it, not trusting a product until my favorite influencer advertises it.

The First Draft News article mentions seven forms of misinformation and disinformation. They believe it exists on a spectrum from low misinformation and disinformation to high. They placed misleading content towards the lower end, because it is not blatantly inaccurate, however, in my opinion, it is the most dangerous. Misleading content makes people make inaccurate opinions on important topics. Misleading content can be connected to the dangers of filtering because once someone interacts with misleading content, they may continue to run into it. Consistently being exposed to misleading content will lead to a worldview that is inaccurate and dangerous.