The News, Distrust, and Distortions

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As much as we would like to believe that multi-media doesn't shape our perceptions–ranging from the organization of your house to geopolitics–what has been increasingly normalized and modernized is the rate at which information is being fed to us. Yes, it is very helpful to have the internet constantly at our fingertips, to have AI a chat away, and to have influencers giving us constructed arguments on hot topics, but it is quite problematic. We have all the tools at our disposal to be more successful and more knowledgeable than previous generations, and yet we are unable to decipher the daily flood of information. When fact-checking and knowing what news outlets are trustworthy consumes an egregious amount of effort compared to our ability to absorb news, it begins to cause paralysis, fatigue, and avoidance. This is where my whirlwind of questions for this project begins.