News Literacy, Misinformation and Free Speech

It is said that over 75 percent of the U.S. population uses social media. Unfortunately, social media websites like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter, to name a few, are commonly riddled with misinformation. This is mainly due to how most of the internet remains unregulated, at least to a degree. This allows anyone to post almost anything anywhere, without the need to be accurate. This can lead to large followings of people, subscribed to misinformation, 2 amazing examples of these are, the flat earth society and antivaxxers. Unfortunately, despite how easy it is for people…