MCOM 4003 - Cameron Carter

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            Here in the United States, we are awarded many freedoms that are not afforded to people in other countries. It is not uncommon to hear people in the United States talk about protecting their first amendment right, the freedom of speech, although many people are not referencing it correctly. Meanwhile, in other countries, their governments are attempting to add restrictions to journalists and even everyday citizens on their social media accounts. Although I have heard about countries placing rigid restrictions on journalists because their truthful and informative articles could cause the less fortunate to revolt and get the oppressive government overturned.            Lesotho is a small mountainous African country that is landlocked by South Africa. The country has just over two million citizens and the country’s leadership is now trying to place strict restrictions on the social media users of the country....

          It seems like any assignment that I have had over the last year there’s some way that I can tie to COVID-19 in one way or another. Covid-19 has consumed and transformed our lives for more than a year now. Our initial introduction to this pandemic was chaotic in and of itself and not just to the United States but to two people all around the world. To have a virus spreading as rapidly as COVID-19 was in its initial stages without tons of factual and viable information was troublesome within itself. It was the perfect storm for misinformation and “fake news” to run rampant. We went from seeing people buying out toilet paper in the supermarket to two people wearing gloves and an attempt to be safer all while touching everything in sight that’s making the gloves pointless. Not just that at the beginning of the pandemic the previous president of the United States Donald Trump chose to refer to the Covid-19 pandemic as the Chinese virus. Back in early M...