Minor, Lee and Catacchio

          Minor writes about how he wrote false information for the show Street Sharks on a website for the show. He gained access to edit a website specific to the show. With this ability he was able to add fake episode synopses' and fake characters to the character list. Because he was so easily able to do this, he was able to prove that people will believe anything they see on the internet, and take every word in as truth.
          Lee wrote something similar about how anything can be spread on the internet. He focused on the aftermath of the Boston Massacre and the hunt for the bomber. After the bombing, which killed and injured many, the police went on a hunt for the perpetrator, but found it difficult. The photos released showed man the public was suspicious of, Sunil Tripathi. Because of these photos, people started to claim that he was the terrorist. Due to the attention and the claims, he was then named responsible for the bombing. The police figured out that he was not the bomber, and he had to go through the trauma of being falsely accused of such a horrible thing anyway.
          Catacchio explains how social media platforms can carry false information, like Twitter. People tend to talk about an event on Twitter, or Facebook before they even have any of the facts, and this way false information is spread. With all of this false information spreading around it's hard to tell whether what the new sources or social media authors say is true. He gives a solution; that once a tweet is deemed false, retweeting should be blocked.