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While teaching media literacy sounds good in theory, in practice it may be helping to radicalize people. The problem is that while the media is often-to-usually
by Alex3917 8y ago
While teaching media literacy sounds good in theory, in practice it may be helping to radicalize people. The problem is that while the media is often-to-usually wrong, when people try to fact check what they're reading some percentage of them end up surfacing even more dubious information and then go on to literally become nazis.
Danah Boyd gave a good talk on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7FVyQCjNg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7FVyQCjNg