## Fake News
### Reading Response
**Had everyone in the country learned and used “crap detection” skills, would we be so affected by “fake news” and media manipulation, or would we end up in filter bubbles?**

More than not, internet users research out of entertainment, not for enlightenment. Either A, we bias our own research or B, Google does that for us based on an algorithm to keep us captivated and validated for our opinions. Eli Pariser from Upworthy verifies "how the internet tends to give you what you want" (FS, 2017). The reality of fake news is that it's not always "fake news." It’s typically real facts manipulated and "used out of context and weaponized" to convince people of the validity of their opinion using falsehoods (Wardle, 2020). Learning "crap detection" skills is ideal for forming an accurate opinion, but I don't think that would make us immune to media manipulation. This is why we, as active internet users and society, should consider Claire Wardle’s article about being victims of “information disorder.” Human nature's inclination to "forget that other perspectives exist" would bias our research techniques. If everyone in the country learned how to use “crap detection,” it wouldn’t change the damages of the past or the paranoias of the future. The fear of the “crap detection” we could be taught being incorrect in practice is enough to make marginalized people distrust this form of education alone. Do not think that filter bubbles just apply to our results in a search engine, but also to our research methods. We lean on non-expert family/friends or online blogs over “corrupt government.” (Boyd, 2017). It’s a sad reality that every resource we have could be a double-edged sword.

## Filtering and label your email
The image below contains the Outlook Rules for NU News emails along with Voice Thread Responses. I kept getting emails every time someone would respond to a Voice Thread so I thought this would be the perfect chance to organize my inbox.