Privacy is an important thing it’s something we value very much and depend on to keep us sane. The real question is when do we consider are privacy to be breached, like when is our privacy being taken away? I guess it depends on the person really because everyone has levels I think to there privacy. A big place where are privacy is the most important is on social media. Social media outlets have had to be very diligent about there privacy terms to make sure people weren’t having there privacy violated. Actually something thats very prevalent is this years presidential election and conspiracy theories surrounding it. A big privacy issue during this election was the ballots and how the transcribing ballots had been damaged and were unable to be fed into the counting machines. Since that happened the ballots in that condition had to have there information copied, which violated peoples privacy. Not to mention the possibility of rigged votes with both candidates initiating false claims of each other. Privacy protects you from what you wish to tell people, but what about the propaganda that we see on an everyday basis and the affect it could have on your privacy.

Propaganda has become a big problem in recent years creating false news and wrong information. On social media we see everyday fake news and it’s hard because it creates this dilema of what to believe and what not to believe and we see this on social media as well. One of the articles we had to read this week was called “Social Media Networks Are the Handmaiden to Dangerous Propaganda” and this goes over how easy it is for terrorism to flourish online, with the propaganda that comes with it. One of the things this article talks about is how the CSCC which protects against propaganda was unfortunately outgunned and ISIS managed to produce more on twitter than the CSCC did 1 to 99. ISIS was able to brand it’s self and spread there ideas to other people a making it easy to gain followers. So if you look at it social media contributed to terrorism and the rise of propaganda. Another article we had to read called “Should Reddit Be Blamed for the Spreading of a Smear? had to do with other propaganda scandals. The article was about the bombing of the Boston marathon and how one the original suspects was wrongfully accused. The mans name was Sunil Tripathi and his parents created a Facebook page called “Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi,” which had video messages of friends and family. The Facebook cite ended up back firing though because one of the suspects in Boston looked like Sunil, but even though it wasn’t the family started to get hate comments on the Facebook page. It just goes to show the affects that propaganda can bring.

What I found the most interesting this week was the NewsRoom episode we had to watch. The episode was about the bombing at the the Boston marathon and takes you over the events that happened. I just think the show did a good job of showing the importance of that tragedy and just how they do the show in general. Overall privacy and propaganda have become a serious problem and need to be addressed more heavily.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fact-check-trumps-claims-poll-watchers/

This article is about President Trump delivered an error-filled speech from the White House on Thursday, inaccurately claiming Joe Biden’s electoral lead is the result of a far-reaching conspiracy mounted by the media, Democrats and big tech designed to deny him another four years in the White House