YouTube Cracking Down on Conspiracies: Is It Helping People or Censoring Them?

By Katelynn Rosa: The higher-ups at YouTube are back at it again updating their website, but is what they are doing a problem for content creators? YouTube announced in late January they made an update to their algorithm regarding recommendations. The system will no longer recommend videos that “come close to violating” their Community Guidelines; …

Changing the game: Social Media Use and the News

By TheAC301 staff: The traditional news cycle has changed. People no longer wait for six o'clock news or the morning paper to get information because we can get news on our computers, phones, and tablets, etc. For journalists in the “race to be first” on a story, information is now virtually everywhere. But, who’s posting …

Net Neutrality – What the Heck is it? (News Analysis)

by Kevin Swenson Recently, Senator Ted Cruz took to twitter to comment on the state of the United States Internet and Internet Service providers (ISPs) as well as Net Neutrality. https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/531834493922189313 Net Neutrality, in its plainest definition, is the idea that the Internet is something that the should not be controlled by who pays the …