In today's world, I feel like this is a very true fact. We need something, or someone, that is going to teach us as media consumers how to sift through what is real and what isn't. I feel that there isn't a specific course or person to learn from as of now, but maybe there should be a uniformity of some sort. I just have the sense I am always having to fight to be ahead of the newest change that occurs which allows misinformation to spread.

This is a great question. To answer, there is a huge disconnect with younger audiences and watching the news like people in the past. TikTok and platforms like it tend to summarize news into shorter pieces which appear to be more viewable to those who want a quick encapsulation of what occurred recently in the world.

From my personal experience, the addition of TikTok has completely changed the game when it comes to gaining news through media. After doing a short amount of research, a viewer will find that there are algorithms which have been created by TikTok. It has been proven these algorithms change the user's experience by controlling what they see based off many different factors. The same goes for when a new news piece comes out, for it is not for sure the user will even see the videos of those TikTokers they follow. The platform also can easily spread misinformation based off a single video due to the information not being real going viral.