Wednesday, December 16, 2020
If society could learn one lesson from 2020, it’s that we’re more critical of information than ever before. With access to troves of information at the click of a button, it can often be hard to understand if a source of news or data is legitimate or not. Even worse, selectively choosing which information to consume can narrow the reader’s perceptions and world-view. This siloing of information can lead to arguing, finger pointing, and generally unpleasant discourse which we have all seen play out in real time over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent U.S. presidential election.