1.”Cancelling” was originally intended to hold powerful men accountable for their actions when other more traditional avenues for justice failed.  But Wynn argues that it has strayed from this aim. According to Wynn, what logical fallacies are present in cancel culture discourse? Do you think that “cancel culture” has a chilling effect on discourse? Use specific examples from your own experience and the interview with Natalie Wynn. 2. According to Wynn, what is “abstraction.” How does this relate to the ways we consume information on social media? What are the specific dangers of abstraction?  3. Jia Tolentino writes, “This system persists because it is profitable. As Tim Wu writes in The Attention Merchants, commerce has been slowly permeating human existence – entering our city streets in the nineteenth century through billboards and posters, then our homes in the twentieth century through radio and TV. Now, in the twenty-first century, in what appears to be something of a final stage, commerce has filtered into our identities and relationships. We have generated billions of dollars for social media platforms through our desire – and then through a subsequent, escalating economic and cultural requirement – to replicate for the internet who we know, who we think we are, who we want to be. Since our internet usage is so linked to identity and commerce, how do you think this interferes with what we believe and how we interpret the news we consume online?  4. Postman writes, […] television provides a new (or, possible, restores an old) definition of truth: The credibility of the teller is the ultimate test of the truth of a proposition. “Credibility” here does not refer to the past record of the teller for making statements that have survived the rigors of reality-testing. It refers only to the impression of sincerity, authenticity, vulnerability, or attractiveness (chose one or more) conveyed by the actor/reporter “(102). How should credibility be determined? How does the internet change our ideas about credibility?  How do many people determine the credibility of content on the internet?  What are the specific problems you’ve observed when people share content online?