Nikolai Never Lies

  As I'm sure you all know by now Elon Musk has had major interest in buying twitter recently, and this is due to him wanting to have "free speech" on the app.  This would be interesting because the first thing that comes to everyone's mind is that he is going to unban former President Donald Trump.  This seems like might not be the best idea considering some of his tweets from the past that may or may have not incited violence.  Many people on social media think this is going to be a terrible idea because you are going to have one of the richest men in the world run a social media app.  However, there are many problems with the Twitter app, and the app to its core has changed over the past 4 or 5 years.  I remember when i first downloaded twitter back in 2011 or 2010, and your timeline would go in chronological order from top to bottom.  However, now the algorithm has tweets from three days ago pop up at the top of my timeline, and then right beneath ...

  Russian/Ukraine on social media Over the past few weeks we have seen much news about Ukraine, and in this blog I am going to be looking at the distribution of Ukraine information through social media.  IN an NPR article the author describes how social media is influencing people's views on the Ukraine conflict.  The author states that there have been many fake videos, or videos from a different issue used to spread misinformation about the Ukraine conflict.  For example, there was a video taken during a climate change protest, where people were covered by bags, and they did this to show support for helping tackle climate change.  However, people on social media used that clip and said this is fake news being spread about the Ukraine conflict.  They said that these people were supposedly killed during an attack on Ukraine, but the video clip was actually from a completely different issue that had no correlation.  I hope I explained that somewhat well,...

  Social media in younger generations We all know that social media can be a toxic place for young people specifically, but there is a new bill that would allow parents to sue platforms for being addicting to children and causing harm.  This bill was created to make these large platforms responsible for making their apps non addictive for minors.  This is an interesting bill because we all know that these apps are extremely addictive.  Look at tik tok for example, on this app you can make short videos that only keep the person's attention for a short amount of time.  This means people can scroll for hours before realizing they have wasted their time.  This is what the bill is trying to stop, at least that is how I interpret the proposed bill.  Social media creates this world of fake image, and young people think that everything that they see on there is actually real life.  However, most of the time the people that post on social media only post w...