We all are in this situation. We are officially in a post truth era and capitalism in part led us here. Truth don’t matter when you got money
California is requiring kids to take media literacy courses that teach them to think critically and challenge what they read, which I think is a good start but the rich use the media corps they bought to push false narratives world wide, there’s only so much you can do to prepare a kid for that kind of insidious bullshit.
Hard to know what to do about it when the people who are the most susceptible to misinformation are often the ones who think they’re the least susceptible to misinformation.
And no I don’t just mean right wing chuds. I’ve found there’s a heavy correlation between people who are certain they are immune to propaganda and know the real truth and people who have, in fact, been conned by propaganda and misinformation. Conspiracy theorists, MLM adherents, antivax weirdos, homeopathy people … they’re all “doing their own research” so they can’t be conned.
The hubris is always a dead giveaway. A sort of Dunning-Kruger thing.
For what it’s worth I totally acknowledge that I can be and have been tricked by misinformation and propaganda.
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We all are in this situation. We are officially in a post truth era and capitalism in part led us here. Truth don’t matter when you got money
California is requiring kids to take media literacy courses that teach them to think critically and challenge what they read, which I think is a good start but the rich use the media corps they bought to push false narratives world wide, there’s only so much you can do to prepare a kid for that kind of insidious bullshit.
Hard to know what to do about it when the people who are the most susceptible to misinformation are often the ones who think they’re the least susceptible to misinformation.
And no I don’t just mean right wing chuds. I’ve found there’s a heavy correlation between people who are certain they are immune to propaganda and know the real truth and people who have, in fact, been conned by propaganda and misinformation. Conspiracy theorists, MLM adherents, antivax weirdos, homeopathy people … they’re all “doing their own research” so they can’t be conned.
The hubris is always a dead giveaway. A sort of Dunning-Kruger thing.
For what it’s worth I totally acknowledge that I can be and have been tricked by misinformation and propaganda.
So, one of the most censored democratic countries wants to censore even more? Oh yeah…