During the 2016 election, this was the election that I just randomly start paying attention to politics to. At the time I was 15, which was kind of a young age to involve myself with politics because ever sense then i can't stop paying attention to politics. The election caused a huge divide in a plethora of aspects but ultimately democrats and republicans haven't been able to tolerate each other every sense. The media has shown a bit of contribution to that issue because they're is a certain tone that an author will use when they clearly show they are one sided, its almost like talking with a bad attitude. Soon hopefully, we as a nation can come together again!

The manipulation of certain topics and certain media to persuade parties in an individuals favor pertaining to their ideals and morals. But what is sick about the growth of this issue is how far it has gone and not a single thing has been placed in order to prevent spread essentially. Taking it to the government, having government officials sit through a conversation that seems never ending to only come up with a little slap on the hand as a consequence. What shouldn't be difficult to grasp is that these are manipulators we all are dealing with so the best possible way to "prevent" at this point is to cut them off at the root!

Limiting what a reader actually takes from reading an article is always going to be a little bit strange but its for the better! Critical ignoring is ignoring what is damaging to a readers takeaways or in other words missing the misinformation. I believe this is the very start of practicing good media literacy!

"...Manipulative Information...". Sitting on that we perceive people and their actions manipulative not information coming from maybe or maybe not a truthful article, statement, reading, etc. This is yet another thing us students and readers let cross our minds when interacting with online articles and social media. We let this information manipulate due to us being young and vulnerable to misinformation so easily. Applying the term "manipulative" to something even an article sounds weird and off but we forget it comes from a person. A person with unclear intentions to harm education or bloom education.

I really love how it's described in this excerpt; "..informal, entertaining style of visual media..". Visual social media has been on the rise for quite sometime now, especially as TikTok grew all around the world. This gave a new platform for many new things, new populations, and new content. News reports can now be fitted to your phones screen right as your scrolling through social media. Genius right? It is nice don't get me wrong but people can twist and turn "news" just exactly how they can in a post, through an article, or on TV. it has brought a lot of awareness to lots of different issues which is a very great thing, but again, it comes back to practicing effective media literacy!

I believe that this has taken place due to social media already ingrained in a young persons (18 - 24) daily routine of checking their social media all throughout the day so of course they're going to run into some form of news, big or small. But whether that news is truthful and legit is something different! Young people, including myself, don't realize that social media is and has been the number one breeding grounds for misinformation in many forms but we don't think of it because its social media, its fun and quirky right? It simply comes down to having our media literacy on high alert of course everywhere but social media is where is the cruciality is all!