https://www.royalheartarts.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-04-06 https://www.royalheartarts.com/blog/education-on-disinformation monthly 0.5 2026-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad0a3df38bd427d1e973a7/07aa733f-8aa4-4ea2-86f7-c8f1a290cbef/Screenshot+2026-04-05+232918.png Stories from the Heart - Education on Disinformation - Rumor Guard The first website I looked over was the News Literacy Project’s “Rumor Guard.” This website provides educational resources and additional information on how to spot and assess misinformation from around social media and the internet as a whole. Its main feature is presenting news and social media posts that seem real and provides context and additional information on how it is fake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad0a3df38bd427d1e973a7/1775446764998-VTWEAK6K726ORGC7ZJZX/Screenshot%2B2026-04-05%2B225912.png Stories from the Heart - Education on Disinformation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad0a3df38bd427d1e973a7/1775446805347-OF6D8ESFN7VSROSHHC0G/Screenshot+2026-04-05+225919.png Stories from the Heart - Education on Disinformation https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad0a3df38bd427d1e973a7/39450101-b6ab-4964-88ac-aacd7513ed08/Screenshot+2026-04-05+220033.png Stories from the Heart - Education on Disinformation - Breaking Harmony Square For the second item I looked over, I played “Breaking Harmony Square.” This game sets you to play as a new Chief Disinformation Officer set to cause chaos in the town of Harmony Square. Throughout the game, you are presented with four scenarios in which you are tasked to use various mis and disinformation techniques to polarize the citizens of Harmony Square. Two of the techniques I found especially interesting to use were the use of bots in social media as well as the use of strong emotional and threatening language in social media posts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad0a3df38bd427d1e973a7/64088432-6ce9-4990-983e-24e788b1ce72/Screenshot+2026-04-05+221411.png Stories from the Heart - Education on Disinformation - Using bots has become a popular and very damaging technique that organizations use to help spread and control information. This infographic by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency presents how bots are used to help the spread of disinformation, and some of these techniques are exactly the ones used in the game. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad0a3df38bd427d1e973a7/c0363b23-f922-498d-984e-6c008db505a2/Screenshot+2026-04-05+222054.png Stories from the Heart - Education on Disinformation - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.royalheartarts.com/blog/my-average-daily-media-consumption monthly 0.5 2026-03-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad0a3df38bd427d1e973a7/5191856d-f509-4ed0-ad5a-8e6e1913eebe/Screenshot+2026-03-29+225347.png Stories from the Heart - My Average Daily Media Consumption - 7:30 am: 7:30 am: This morning, after I woke up and got out of bed, I started my day with some YouTube videos I have fallen behind on. The current video series I was watching is a Skyrim Let's Play by the Elise and Sam Channel. These videos are mostly for entertainment; however, they do like to make jokes and briefly talk about current events. In the three videos I watched this morning, they don't talk much about politics or current events. When there is, however, I always try my best and look into the things they're talking about, especially since they are both from and based in the UK, so I like to learn about the things they talk about that are specific to their culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad0a3df38bd427d1e973a7/d3e29cdb-e80f-4237-9196-1f1509e8fd1f/IMG_8401.PNG Stories from the Heart - My Average Daily Media Consumption - 12:45 pm: Around lunch, I took a break from cleaning my apartment to eat and scroll through social media a little bit. I mainly use Instagram as my app of choice, and while I mostly follow and see art accounts on my feeds, the occasional pop culture or news posts slip through. The one that stuck out to me was this post by Bleacher Report. These posts have always been interesting to me as they are formatted very similarly to how traditional news agencies make their posts. This, for me and I'm sure many others, throws me off because it forces me to actually check and verify who it's from and what they are talking about. For this post specifically, as a member of the military, I found the coach's quote and thoughts quite funny and objectively false since a vast majority of us, even special operations forces, do in fact listen to all kinds of music while working out and training. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad0a3df38bd427d1e973a7/77513f36-f113-41cb-a687-d8bbc11de83b/IMG_8403.PNG Stories from the Heart - My Average Daily Media Consumption - 6:30 pm: Most of my day was spent finishing up assignments I have due for work tomorrow, but I did take a break and scrolled through Threads when this post crossed my feed. Again, it is formatted in a way that communicates “news” to me, and it does have relevance to some current events. With situations like this, people are often quick to start rumors or frame statements in a way that makes people engage with the content. In an effort to check the claim in the post, I was able to find only one “traditional” article on the subject linked here from the Daily Wire. As I thought, the post takes the possibility to the extreme when, in actuality, T-Mobile has made no real decision as of the time of writing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/62ad0a3df38bd427d1e973a7/51d256cb-aaee-4724-9d00-edbb9f1a54f9/Screenshot+2026-03-29+193233.png Stories from the Heart - My Average Daily Media Consumption - 8:00 pm: Lastly, because I use Firefox as my web browser, every time I open a new tab, I am presented with a collection of articles with topics ranging from politics to cooking tips. While I don’t often look through them, I did want to see what was presented to me this time. These four articles were displayed under the politics section. From left, article 1, article 2, article 3, article 4. While all four articles are from reputable news agencies and generally seen as trustworthy, it is always important to look out for any bias presented in the articles. 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