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Have you ever picked up your phone to check one message, only to look up and realize that much more time has passed than you expected? What began as a quick glance turns into scrolling, watching, clicking—and suddenly, an hour is gone.
We humans are very strange and fragile beings. We can't seem to acknowledge the feelings and sentiments of others to the extent that we should. The most pitied person in our eyes is ‘ourselves.’ Maybe we are made this way, as we can only feel the storms and worlds inside ourselves because we are going through it, but when the same, lesser, or greater problem falls upon someone else we just brush off their feelings.
As deepfake technology becomes more advanced, it is not always easy to detect manipulated media. Still, a few careful habits can help people approach online content more critically.
At the beginning of 2020, the world woke up to a nightmare. The COVID-19 pandemic began. None of us was prepared for such a thing.
