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I remember before common folk had internet, and there was still disinformation, misinformation, and plain bullshit.
by failrate 6y ago
I remember before common folk had internet, and there was still disinformation, misinformation, and plain bullshit.
- egypturnash 6y agoMedia literacy, marketing techniques, and propaganda techniques really need to be part of an elementary school education. But the US's education system is a giant underfunded mess, so good luck adding anything useful like that. I got a decent education in that sort of thing but it was entirely through my parents and stuff they got for me, Consumer Reports used to have a great kid's magazine that combined reviews of kid products with that sort of education, for instance.
- krrrh 6y agoIf you go back through every major media development, from cheap novels to television, you can find moral panics and calls for formal education to help kids deal with it. It takes time, and it happens unevenly, but culture, social norms, and market pressures demanding new technology to fill the gaps left by the previous media, do catch up. Any propaganda from more than a couple of decades ago seems immediately corny to kids.
- TheOtherHobbes 6y agoThere was. But the Internet makes it so much easier to deliver it with bad faith in industrial quantities, using manipulative sources who are not who they pretend to be. The impersonation can be more damaging than the content, because it's a variety of toxic mental pollution - a form of betrayal - that lowers the SNR of the entire Internet.