Conversation 3

The article “Misinformation and Biases Infect Social Media, Both Intentionally and Unintentionally” by Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia, Filippo Menczer highlights how false information can spread rapidly through social media platforms, leading to harmful consequences.Its discussed how there are 3 forms of bias that can arise from our use of social media. Those being bias in the brain, bias in society, and bias in the machine. Each one of these is a big contributing factor for the rapid spread of misinformation. Bias in the brain deals with how information overload can lead us to receiving false information quicker and adopting it as real due to the overwhelming amount of news coverage we get on social media. Bias in society shows how the people we are around can influence the credibility of the information we consume and can determine whether we accept or not. Finally, bias in the machine goes in on how search engines and algorithms  create a bubble of information that can hinder the amount of different perspectives we get. I will definitely be chasing the way I use social media now that I understand these factors. I hate the idea of being limited perspectively. even from playing fakey I thought some information I would get 100 percent but I got some confused. which was mind blowing because I consider myself an active and informed social media user.