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Oh happy day, oh sad day. We laugh at Trump losing the Iowa caucus and cry at the prospect of Cruz winning the caucus. We talk about the use of a coin-flip, the craziness of the GOP candidates, and both the Democrat and Republican caucuses. This leads us to talk about Flint and the water crisis. We note how while Al Jazeera ran a piece on the crisis before anyone else, it was social media that really pushed the news forward. We discuss the changing nature of knowledge, social media, and the era of memes and conspiracy theories. What happens when because of facebook and twitter all we do is repeat information without fact-checking. We discuss the nature of information and misinformation.
