Learning Goal: I’m working on a english discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.
- What is the main problem sketched out in Dwoskin’s article? What kinds of misinformation are mentioned? What motivations do you think people have to put this kind of misinformation out there?
- Why should we care about the problem? What is being done to make the problem better according to Dwoskin? What obstacles stand in the way?
- What are the consequences of misinformation according to both articles? What specific things are mentioned that give you a sense of just how bad and how far reaching the problem is? Give at least one specific example from each article.
- What is problematic about the method Roof used to do research his topic as described in “Google and the Misinformed Public”? What does it ignore?
- What are algorithms? How do they contribute to the problem?