Hello, for my discussion this week, I chose the article "Most in the U.S Say Alcohol Adversely Affects Drinkers, Society." I think the title is very misleading to begin with because there is no way "most" people believe this because drinking at a social event is so common I bet some people don't think drinking at a social event is good, but not most, or it won't be so common in the first place. I would correct it by saying, "a small majority in U.S Say Alcholol Adversely Affects Drinker Society." When looking over the article when doing the poll, they took both drinkers, nondrinkers, and us adults, which to me doesn't make sense because of arent all these people us adults. I also think it would be more beneficial to do this poll by age group because, in my opinion, younger people typically drink more than older adults. So they could have just done a poll with all older adults. I think the author was maybe trying to push for more social events where everyone stays liquor free. This author might hate booze themselves, and when you don't drink at a social gathering, it does look weird and makes you feel out of place. So maybe he wants to make it seem like everyone says it impacts society badly, so let's just all stop together.

I found an article about the impact of alcoholism on society, and it was interesting because their survey stated that 77% of people admit that they have more than 4 drinks a night, which is contended as binge drinking. The other article expressed that 71% of people think alcohol significantly negatively impacts society. I just feel like those percentages are too close and opposite, so one of them has to be wrong. I feel like if 71 percent of people didn't like the effects alcohol had on society, maybe they wouldn't drink, but then it goes against the 77% of people that admit they binge drink on occasion. Then I thought, well, maybe they believe alcohol is harmful but there addicted, and according to the second article, 13.9% of people are addicted to alcohol.

I see fake or misleading articles everywhere on social media, so much to the point that I don't know what to believe anymore. I notice that the media will take a little piece of something and blow it up to cause a ton of conflict. For example, the Johnny Depp case said he sexually assaulted and abused Amber Heard; immediately, people started to hate him, and Disney didn't support him anymore along with other major companies. Then a while later, he takes her to court, and the truth is that she was lying and making stuff up to ruin his representation. When I see something I think is fake, I ignore it and move along with my day. Im, not even a big fan of reading the news or anything now because I don't know what to believe

• Discuss whether you think the information presented by your peers' examples was used to mislead the reader?
• What steps should the author(s) of your peers' examples have taken to present the information fairly and accurately?