Fakes News Fact or Faux

The article that I am choosing to post this week’s blog about is several articles based around the new Heartbeat Act that passed in Texas earlier this week. While there is alot of controversy revolving around this Act, the one thing I’m choosing to focus on is that Texas has created an anonymous tip-line website to report individuals who are believed to have performed or had an abortion. From a personal stand-point, I cannot believe that anyone would create a website to target women for making a personal choices about their body and personal lives. Upon seeing the first tweet about the website (which can be found linked below as well as quoted on my Twitter page) I immediately did a quick Google search to see if this was true because it’s such a bizarre concept to me that other people can be so obsessed with what a woman they aren’t even affected by chooses to do with her body. Through some further research I found that while the website was active for a small amount of time, the domai...

 For this post the media I’m choosing to observe is a Tik Tok I saw earlier this week. I saw the Tik Tok and automatically thought about this blog and the purpose of the blog. The tok tik (posted on my twitter and listed at the end of the post) was a post targeted towards being anti-vaxx for the COVID-19 vaccine. The person posting the video was targeting the “liberal sheep” partying and showing off an article he found that said that the CEO of the Pfizer vaccine had not even taken it himself. I was curious about this and did about 3 minutes of research. Upon the quick research I learned that yes, the CEO of Pfizer did not have his vaccine for two reasons. A. He wanted to wait until the vaccine was available for his age group and didn’t want to “cut in line” and take a vaccine from someone who was very high risk potentially needed the vaccine. B. He also had not had his vaccine because the original article was posted March 5th even though the Tik Tok video was posted mid august. I ...