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# Filtering and Fake News

### 1.Filtering my email inbox
![inbox](https://i.imgur.com/FPwcb3R.png)
I implemented a second rule to filter out emails from The Fashion Society, so I have all of the club's communications in one place. 

### 2. *Did Media Literacy Backfire* (Dana Boyd, 2017)
I can’t imagine being taught in school that “you can’t get pregnant until you’re 16”. Luckily for me, I had a teacher who actually valued credible facts, *shocking*. In today’s media-frenzy world characterized by widespread consumption and spread of propaganda, media literacy is needed now more than ever (Boyd). Society requires an immediate cultural change about how we absorb and obtain our information, and how we process everything we read or hear (Boyd). From fake news regarding elections, to high school sex-ed, to ridiculous scandals out of pizza joints, misinformation is infiltrated everywhere in our society, and a reversal of this is urgently needed.

An interesting connection made in Boyd’s article is that she recognizes public trust in doctors is declining, yet more people are obtaining medical advice from social media platforms. How is this logical? The (questionable) answer; it’s cheaper. Somehow, people are willing to distrust professionals with years of education and practice, and put faith in community members on online platforms. If that doesn’t call out a dangerous misinformation crisis, I don’t know what will. 

Boyd chose to include a photograph of the *Electronic Superhighway*, a digital media experience designed by visionary artist Nam June Paik. Interestingly, I studied this piece back in my AP Art History class, and its socio-cultural impact. Paik was one of the first artists to use televisual material for art, and essentially her piece illustrates how highways transport and diffuse ideas across the country. When she created this in 1995, she didn’t intend for her piece to age in a way where the ideas being spread included misinformation and propaganda. Although the digital age has brought along new communication technologies that contribute to a more superconnected world, the dangers of what these technologies can do when media literacy is revoked is harshly concerning. 