Social media has helped to amplify COVID-19 conspiracy theories. If you were CEO of a social media company, what policies would you put in place to help protect health and reduce the spread of misinformation?

How can a company's historical online behavior and reputation influence the public's reaction during a crisis?

Discuss the role of influencers in potentially escalating or resolving a social networking crisis.

Literacy is about more than reading and writing in a society flooded with images, videos, and posts that compete for our attention and sometimes deceive us. Meanwhile advertising and entertainment media bombard the public with idealized images of how people should look and behave.  Complicating this further is the fact that some of our perceptions of may be hard-wired in ways we don’t recognize. Write a couple sentences about how you deal with the electronic information you receive and send out. Do you accept, reject, or seek alternatives to media?