Author: Maggie (Margaret) Maloney

Maggie Maloney / September 20, 2024 / MCO427 For this week’s blog we’re going to be evaluating misinformation policies on social media platforms. The two platforms I will be evaluating our LinkedIn and TikTok.  The first platform that we will be looking at is LinkedIn. You can review the LinkedIn Community Guidelines here.  Within the…

Maggie Maloney / September 13, 2024 / MCO427 Blog Assignment #3 For this week’s blog, we’re going evaluate Trumps debate statements around pets being eaten in Springfield, Ohio. I first learned about these claims on social media via memes. Memes started flooding my feeds around claims that people in Ohio were eating pets.   Looking…

Maggie Maloney / September 6,2024 / MCO427 Blog Assignment #2 For this week’s blog, we’re going to evaluate Rumor Guard and Bad News. Rumor Guard is a news literacy project that checks the validity of viral posts. The site itself has several different categories that you can look at. Recent checks are categorized into different…

Maggie Maloney / August 29, 2024 / MCO427 Blog Assignment #1 Have you ever taken the time to look at the media you consume through out the day? If not that’s ok today was the first day that I really sat down to journal at what and how I consume media. 6:20 AM – Wake…

Super excited to embarking on this journey of studying Misinformation and Society! Stay tuned in the coming weeks for more content.