As of 2017, three billion people or about 40% of the world’s population, use online social media – and with a daily average of about two hours per day sharing, liking, tweeting and updating on these platforms or half a million tweets and Snapchat photos shared every...
Celebrities pervade American culture and many people are obsessed with them. Magazines glamorize them. The public envies them. Celebrities –whether it’s movie stars, professional athletes or billionaires–dominate social discourse. Never has America been...
By Ray Williams January 19, 2021 Did Pope Francis endorse Donald Trump? No. And yet, millions shared this story on social media, and many believed it. Why? The proliferation of fake news. What’s fake news? Stories that are presented in such a way that they...
By Ray Williams August 1, 2020 Incivility is on the rise in America. Why? Because of the recent recession and growing economic inequality? Because the undercurrent of racism and anti-immigrant beliefs are now more in the open? Because of the increased polarization...
By Ray Williams May 12, 2020 Recent attacks on the U.S. Federal government’s own virus pandemic scientists such as Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Rick Bright by FOX News, conservative politicians and pundits, and even President Trump reflects an anti-science, anti-expert...
