Posts Tagged With ‘ digital citizenship ’

  Social media certainly has turned out to be a double edged sword. Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc. are great ways to keep in touch with family and friends, learn new stuff, and be entertained. Yet, it has been weaponized by unscrupulous people who use it to spread disinformation, hateful messages, and discontent. Their purpose might be political power, financial gain, personal fame, or disruption of community norms or the common good. These amplifiers may be home grown or foreign. When we share a meme on Facebook, we really have no way of knowing where or why it was generated or even if it’s... Continue Reading

  “There has been more new error propagated by the press in the last ten years than in an hundred years before 1798…” John Adams (https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/age-old-problem-fake-news-180968945/) 31 BC, Octavian (ruler of the western part of the Roman empire) and Antony (ruler of the eastern portion and Cleopatra’s lover) square off to see who will become the supreme ruler of all of Rome. Octavian works to discredit Antony and Cleopatra by spreading rumors that she is a “foreign sorceress who had unmanned the once-noble Antony.” He also claims that Antony plans to leave... Continue Reading

The World Wide Web (www://) is certainly an interesting place full of surprises.  Some of what we find there is not to be trusted. Let me give you an example that strikes close to home. BoomerTECH Adventures Corporate Headquarters While at the BoomerTECH Adventures corporate retreat, I was searching for a link related to BoomerTECH Adventures. Instead, I found replicas of our articles for the Times Record in some dubious places. One of those internet sites was InsightNewz. Below is an image that shows what was on InsightNewz, what was originally published in The Times Record, and the original... Continue Reading