am a lone Gunman released smoke devices before shooting indiscriminately on an NYC subway train. This news comes right after the announcement of President Biden who had a press conference in the White House Rose Garden beefing up efforts to prevent gun violence by requiring “ghost guns” to be have serials, imposing the requirement of license when selling and buying these guns, which are already required, and appointed a new ATF director. While they were trying to curb ghost guns use, someone was planning to use other type of weapons to carry out their heinous thoughts. The identified individual is said to have Come from Wisconsin, renting a u-Haul van in Philly before driving to NYC. The gun man injured 20 and has not been found. However NYPD is investigating a suspicious individual Mr. James who is the person who rented the suspicious van that was at the scene. Now concerning this man’s motives, “NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell said there are possibly some social media postings connected to James in which he mentions homelessness, New York and Mayor Eric Adams. The mayor's security detail was heightened out of an abundance of caution, Sewell said,” (CNN). We had just carried a story about being more comprehensive with addressing gun violence and stated that homelessness, rise poverty, decreases in household incomes and rise in prices coupled with COVID, Russian-Ukraine War and social media, pop culture, music and video games raising our children who are now vomiting the crimes are issues we must look at. And today we are hearing that the alleged gunman was dealing with homelessness. We then move into the second segment entitled: “Communication & Disinformation & Obama’s Fight.” Who controls the narratives in the twenty-first century that has seen the decentralization of communication and control of information? Thanks to social and alternative media. Therefore, no one really has control, what we have is a plethora of perspectives, staples of information for us to access and analyze, information that was once reserved. This is necessary as it helps to realize the goal of Communication; to make popular what was the monopoly, and Man has always challenged or obstructed access to information to increase, maintain or establish power or hold over a society or a people. However, Social Media challenges and is an affront to this power, even as it helps communication realizes it aims of making popular what was or is the monopoly. The drive to regulate information must be approached with a level of suspicion and scrutiny because of the rational and so-called pure intentions of this regulatory effort to manage news calling it a corrective means of dispelling misinformation or disinformation or crazy news. However, the strategy to do so would suggest that Americans aren’t individuals with brains who can filter and analyze information and make decisions for themselves based on the news that they have received or based on external stimuli. The problem is that news have become a political and divisive issue and the fact that social media helps to decentralize control of information, thereby providing greater access and several more diverse perspectives of the news, means that no one or two groups can control. Further if you have money, then you can control the narrative and when you look at elections and politics in an America, one cannot rely on major news sources as their news is riddled in political ideology and a spin of the news that satisfies their big money backers. Fox, CNN and MSNBC are prime examples of news outlets that are not innocent of the crime of monopolizing the news for its cronies so as to extend their supporters control or to create, establish or maintain power or a particular political dynamic. So Social media poses problems for these major news outlets