"Unveiling Truth: My Eye-Opening Journey at the 'Fake News' Expo"

It all started with a general mutiny caused by our classmates against a widespread discontent towards the feeling of being wronged, I mean every other class in school got to go on various field trips except for us who just got to go on that one not so fun experience that resulted in an unexpectedly unpleasant heated argument with other schools. Not really up my alley.

 

Anyway, after an endless five minutes, we managed to sway our technology teacher to free us from this unfair imprisonment. We ended up going to this highly entertaining and amazingly insightful expo, which I genuinely enjoyed. The topic is something we anticipated yet we know little about “Fake news”.

 

As someone who values knowledge and truth, I was quite excited about the upcoming trip, both our technology teacher and our philosophy teacher gave us an overall preview of what we were to expect to see in a matter of a few days. As we embarked on our journey, our philosophy teacher threw us an unexpected curveball – a barrage of thought-provoking questions designed to challenge our minds. Nonetheless, it was as if our academic life was meddling in some way into our excitement.

 

Moving onto the awaited day, I was quite excited in the morning of the trip to say the very least. What started off as our small troupe of people turned out to be into a giant group due to the addition of two classes, and the venue was located in the city center so we all together went by subway, hence the crackling atmosphere weirdly combined of lively energy and chaos.

 Stepping into the expo hall was like entering another world. 

Every section of the place was full of eye-opening information and displays of deceitful events that occurred over time throughout history, such as propaganda that was majorly used during the WWII period as a way to persuade the public´s opinions through fear. It was such a shocking fact on how all of these years the human species as soon as they began to evolve the lying factor has always been there or as a matter of a fact on how people, the media, tend to misguide us and manipulate the source of information that will be later displayed for us just for their gain regarding little care to the impact that it could generate.

 

On lLeaving the expo, I felt a renewed sense of purpose. Armed with newfound knowledge and a heightened sense of awareness, I was determined to navigate the murky waters of information with caution and discernment. The expo had transformed from a mere school trip into a catalyst for change not only for my personal growth as a societal change.

Surprisingly I had a great time, and to me, this place became a must-visit a place that offers another way to acquire knowledge and be more cultured about how the information that we always tend to receive isn't what it says it is, since technology has left a huge footprint on our daily life we should always think twice of what we're seeing online.

 

Therefore, let me finish by saying to anyone who comes upon this article, I  encourage them to visit this awesome place no matter what age they are and enjoy learning more about their surroundings in a much diverting and interactive way. And allow them to take off the veil the same way it did to me.

Ailin 1º Bach