I’m working on a computer science question and need guidance to help me learn.
The wide availability of user-generated content in social media facilitates the aggregation of people around common interests, worldviews, and narratives. However, social media also allows for the rapid dissemination of unsubstantiated rumors and conspiracy theories that often elicit rapid, large, but naive social responses…
In this assignment, you need to identify and analyze a piece of mis/dis-information or rumor, or conspiracy theory from social media. It could be any topic of your own interest.
Here are the requirements:
1. When did the “story” initially emerge online?
2. Where is the source of the “story”?
3. How did the traditional news agencies cover this story?
4. Can you learn the online reaction to such “mis/dis-information”?
5. How did this story disseminated online?
Based on your exploration of the mis/dis information, please write a brief guide for your local library on helping library patrons identify mis/dis-information on social media.
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