I love social media and I follow a Twitter account that posts pictures of low quality animals found in video games. 
I look forward to what I’ll learn from this course. I think having a good topic will motivate me and allow me to be interested in applying what we learn from the text. I hope to plan my assignments effectively and not get stressed out by large assignments. I am prone to procrastinating.
For my research, I am particularly interested in news media sources, social media, partisanship and censorship. In the last year, many have looked to social media as a way to connect to people and also a means of sharing and reacting to local and global current events. It has been discussed in 2020 whether tech should be responsible for what is on social media sites and whether they should fact check and treat their platforms as upright news sources.
I think you picked a great research topic. We all have some sort of social media and if you don’t well congratulations you are saving yourself from a lot of misinformation. Back to your topic I think we do need to set some ground rules for social media platforms on how information is being shared within them. We can’t have a group of people spreading misinformation that could reach the young turning them away from the truth. I wish you the best of luck with your research.
Thought of your post as I listened to On The Media this weekend: https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-slaying-fox-monster