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Christine Schueckler
Christine Schueckler is a fourth-year English and French student at the University of Virginia and current Intellectual Takeout intern.

After my sophomore year of college, I interned with USA Today Opinion as a fact-checker. The work was tedious, albeit satisfying; I spent hours poring over news sites, scanning through scientific and demographic studies, and running plagiarism checkers to ensure that every claim in the opinion column was backed by legitimate and trustworthy sources. I
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Kyrie, eleison, I sang with my choir as I glanced down at my phone to see the news that Charlie Kirk had died from the gunshot to his neck. Lord, have mercy. Within seconds, I heard his name whispered from across the room as the news reached my choirmates. The internet flooded with reactions to
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If you’ve ever spent more than fifteen minutes on any social media or news platform, you’ve probably encountered “rage bait” content. Misleading headlines, out-of-touch opinions, and nonsensical commentary can be intentionally ridiculous, designed to make viewers click, view, and write scathing rebuttals in the comments section. Like it or not, the more it annoys us,
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As we ride the wave of the tumultuous 2024 presidential election into the next four years, millions of Americans are left wondering: What happens now? Political tensions and the never-ending doomsaying news cycle seem to surround us on all sides. Regardless of which candidate’s bubble you filled in on your ballot, the uncertainty and polarization
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