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  Big Data is in your life and You Might Not Even Know it       If someone asked you to do something anonymously, whether it was to look up something on the internet or go on vacation without being tracked down at some point or another, it would practically be impossible in today's society. From cellular towards GPS tracking devices being in most technology products to cookies, social media activity, recent searches, purchases, etc., you are always being tracked in one way or another. The reason why individuals are being tracked every single day by their every movement is because of  Big Data  and particularly what you can do with it. Big Data can be gathered, analyzed by computing software, and given out to companies which are done in exchange for monetization of the data. There are over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data being collected every day. That number is only expected to increase due to the accessibility and use technology has in our everyday lives. Ho...

              Why can't news always be accurate and honest?      When it comes to media worldwide, people are typically looking for two things, honesty in the content they are looking for with little to no bias, and accuracy, is the media they are viewing reliable and trustworthy. Using honesty and accuracy is known as  journalism's first principle . This was made up by the RTDNA and their code of ethics. Though in the world of media, it is known that you can get more views and traffic on your websites if you twist your words and use clickbait to get more money and shares. It is a sad reality but is more common than you think, and no piece or topic of media is safe,  fake news  on presidential elections to conflicts in foreign countries fake media is everywhere. Some websites have been able to profit from the popularity of fake news, such as  The Onion  and  The Babylon Bee  intentionally making fa...