Minor, Lee, Catacchio

Minor: This article is about how a writer of a cartoon series was able to draw in a large audience with fabricated characters that are based off of real people. The writer based this cartoon off of the popular cartoon “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles”, and just changed the names and dynamics of the characters as well as settings so that it would be a new show. Websites and TV networks were coming to Minor for questions, but due to his credibility from being the mind behind everything, the readers as well as the press kept reading the series without making any kind of connections to what lies were being told about it.

Lee: This article by Lee highlights a specific case of a man from the Boston Bombing being wrongly accused. He has been missing since mid-March and the war on social media over why he’s missing is just heating up. The effort to find the bomber at first failed initially due to sheer racial profiling. People were jumping to conclusions based on the color of others’ skin as well as what they were wearing. Then the conversation went to who had bags which may have looked out of place. This strengthened these failures because cameras could pick up these bags and follow those who had them.

Catacchio: The writer of this article tackles a major issue on social media today. Twitter is a main source for people to put out news that they believe happened before it has officially been confirmed. This type of failure is not one that can be fixed by the developers of Twitter. It must be fixed at the source. The people who are jumping to conclusions and putting out the news before it is confirmed need to be changed. Twitter has said that they are a great source for breaking news. This is true if you know where to look and who to follow. If you follow a source that gets skewed information, then your information will also be skewed.