MCOM 4003-Sydney Wader

Early in the semester around February I did a blog on plagiarism in the fashion industry and decided that it was one of the projects that caught my eye. I covered fashion 'crimes' around the globe some dealing with the infamous Kim Kardashian and the other dealing with a wedding fashion designer named Sadaf Fawad Khan .  After covering just a few of these copy cats I decided I wanted to do a deeper dive into the world of plagiarism in the world of fashion. Google defines plagiarism as "The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's own." Like I stated in my last blog when we think of plagiarism we normally think of papers, books, etc but don't always associate fashion with the issue. Recently the Daily Inquirer in the Philippines covered a fashion scandal as an Italian fashion design company called Max Mara is under heavy fire for copying an ethnic minority group. The Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre also kno...

America home of the free and the brave, here in the United States of America we have a lot more freedom than other countries in the press, social media, etc. The Freedom of Information Act is a piece of legislation that grants public access to documents or other data in the possession of the government agency or public authority. Unless the information falls into a category that specifically excluded from the terms of legislation. A story involving this act hit the presses and is bringing in a lot of attention. A former police officer for the Bakersfield Police Department in California has recently had claims filed against him for sending explicit images and messages to a 911 caller. The woman has also filed a claim against the police department as a whole for not properly training Officer Enrique Mosqueda or supervising him while on duty. The young woman whose name is being withheld by the media made a 911 call saying she believed her ex boyfriend was outside her home vandalizin...

Here in the United States we have pretty much total freedom on our social media accounts and whatever we want to view.  In June of 2017 Mexico had around 85 million social media user and has grown by 27% throughout the years. Internet users in Mexico on average are spending about 3.5 hour a day on their social media. They are also Facebook's 5th largest market in the entire world. With that being said I wanted to look into Mexico's overall freedom on social media where their status was marked as 'partly free' as they still face limits on their content.  Now even though they are considered to be partly free they do not have freedom of press and bloggers are arrested and even given jail time for their opinions posted online. Over the years their freedom on social media has steadily increased but began to backtrack in 2017 when government spyware became a large concern. With this spyware the internet and social media became a rather scary place to be voicing your opi...

We are always on the internet and we heavily rely on it to give us information. Everyone always cracks jokes like "Well if you read it on the internet it must me true." because obviously there are some liars on the web. Now fact checking is when you investigate an issue in order to verify the facts.   Along with fact checking we can look at misinformation which is false or inaccurate information, especially that which is deliberately intended to deceive. Now who is the king of misinformation and gets fact checked on the hour? The one and only President Donald Trump the leader of the United States seems to have a bit of a fibbing problem. CNN did study on Trump for National Fact Checking Day and found that he has made 9,451 false or misleading claims in his 802 days in office. We all know that our President has been less then truthful on multiple occasions. The Washington Post Fact Checker has recently proved just how much he stretches the truth. Trump is averaging 2...