ANNOTATION

1. People who had their own point of view rather than listened to news sources most likely attracted covid. They potentially did not take it that seriously, so they did nothing to prevent it. While our brain tries to sort out the facts, our gut tells us whether we can trust the other person, and our heart makes us want to do something about it (Heinrichs page 38).

2. Most people will believe a specific source because some of the sources they don't trust. A source that is convincing will most likely be won over by the audience. A performer, in order to be convincing, must conceal "the discrediable facts that he has had to learn about the performance; in everyday terms, there will be things he knows, or has known, that he will not be able to tell himself (Tolentino I in Internet Trick Mirror Page 13).

3. If you test multiple sources, you could find one that works better than the one you choose first. "I had recently revisited the sites that had once inspired me, and realized how much of an idiot I was to be wowed by that" (Tolentino I in Internet Trick Mirror Page 4).

4. Your sources should always be relevant to the information you believe is true. These deranged takes, and their unnerving proximity to online monetization, are case studies in the way that our world-digitally mediated, utterly consumed by capitalism-makes communication about morality very easy but makes actual moral living very hard (Tolentino I in internet Trick Mirror Page 9).

5. Even political narratives lead to bias information. Therefore, any story that is publsihed for people to see can be misleading. In 2016, a similar fiasco made national misleading. newsi in Pizzagate, after a few rabid internet denziens decided they'd found coded messages about child sex slavery in the advertising of a pizza shop associated with Hillary Clinton's campaign (Tolentino I in internet Trick Mirror Page 10).

6. This is best when developing an understanding of the information being provided. It really can have a different affect on how you would react to something rather than not giving it thought at all. In part out of a desire to preserve what's worthwhile from the decay that surounds it, I've been thinking about five intersecting problems: first, how the internet is build to distend our sense of identity; second, how it encourages us to overvalue our opinions; third, how it maximizes our sense of opposition; fourth, how it cheapens our understandingf solidarity; finally, how it destroys our sense of scale (Tolentino I in internet Trick Mirror Page 12).

7. I would say outside influences such as social media do contribute to how the narrative is told. Having a big platform such as having a lot of followers on your social media account can have a big impact on how the viewers react. Taken to its extreme, virtue signaling has driven people on the left to some truly unhinged behavior (Tolentino I in internet Trick Mirror Page 9).

8. If the news isn't beneficial to the audience and viewers then they won't take it seriously; for instance, if the information is useful or helpful than it will be considered beneficial. It has to make the audience believe in what was done or said. Think of coworkers at the bar after they've delivered a big sales pitch, or a bride or groom in their hotel room after the wedding reception: everyone may still be performing, but they feel at eas, ungarded, alone (Tolentino I in Internet Trick Mirror Page 13).

These passages encourage us to think critically about information sources, credibility, and bias. We should develop critical thinking and media literacy skills to obtain accurate and reliable information.