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This would be great, if it were only remotely feasible that an individual could ever have the tools and training to counterbalance entire industries of giant di

This would be great, if it were only remotely feasible that an individual could ever have the tools and training to counterbalance entire industries of giant disinformation-focused billionaire corporations and governments with thousands of highly trained disinformation professionals using modern tooling, well-funded research departments, and increasingly deep data to spread disinformation. There is no amount of 'media literacy' training (which, in practice, would have to be created and administered by public schools under the watchful eye of some of the selfsame disinformation purveyors, in some states) that will ever be up to the task.

fwn 4y ago
> There is no amount of 'media literacy' training (which, in practice, would have to be created and administered by public schools under the watchful eye of some of the selfsame disinformation purveyors, in some states) that will ever be up to the task. Sometimes I feel that the skill level demanded for media literacy is set artificially high in order to force the conclusion that individuals are categorically incapable of judging their personal information environment. But that does not seem plausible to me. I feel pretty savvy, and I wasn't trained in school. Almost no journalist or public figure has received formalized training in the way you describe. And why would that be necessary, what would they teach beyond common sense? Do you have examples of large-scale disinformation campaigns that aren't sufficiently contextualized through regular mainstream media?