The case study we decided to focus on is the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This conflict originally started in 2014 with the invasion of Crimea (a peninsula of Ukraine), but escalated with the invasion in 2022.  We chose this topic because it is extremely divisive, and the views that have sprung out of it can teach us a lot about how information flows in the current media landscape. Since our topic is more recent, we have been able to find real and fake social media posts, news articles from the past few years, and visual media of the devastation in Ukraine. We know that almost everyone knows about this situation and has seen the media surrounding it, so by investigating how the media can control how we think, it will come to light how people can be influenced into believing outlandish things.

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