Media Literacy
23 Threads
"Fact checking" is just writing glorified editorials. It is considered "opinion" in a court of law. Calling something a "fact check" when it is an opinion-editorial is a form of...
Fake News: A Real Threat to India's Democracy 🇮🇳 The contagion of fake news has gripped the world, and India is no exception. As the world's largest democracy with the second larg...
Its true that ppl in the US need to improve their media literacy, but also ppl don't believe in nearly enough "conspiracies" that's literally part of the problem. https://t.co/QwNm...
1. The truth is you can’t. And it is almost certainly happening. “Our” propaganda vs. “their” propaganda. One of the things that reading Ellul’s “Propaganda” will teach you is th...
1. This is illustrative of the way that propaganda works. People think propaganda is about lies, when mostly it’s about attention and framing. A short thread to explain the basic c...
Western politicians, pundits and celebrities circulating the false claim that Iran sentenced 15,000 protesters to death is a good example of the way fact checking and journalistic...
Thoughts That Should Probably Occur More Often I wonder if my own government is being truthful about its actions in that part of the world? I wonder if my own government is in th...
Democracy of the vote without democracy of information is not democracy.
i am begging and pleading with journalists, please just spend 20 seconds googling the "concerned local parent" whose quote you're using as the focal point of your story. not only d...
PRESS RELEASE Minister Hails Security Forces For UNESCO Confab Success #Thread ⤵️ https://t.co/o1OBzqhC9o
Happening Now: Closing Session of @UNESCO #GlobalMILWeek2022 and of the Adoption of the Abuja Declaration on Global Financing for Media and Information Literacy: An imperative to f...
Happening Now at Day 2 of @UNESCO #GlobalMILWeek2022 #GlobalMILWeek Ministerial Panel: National Media and Information Literacy Frameworks, Sustaining Beyond #Disinformation https...
PRESS RELEASE @UNESCO Global MIL Week: Minister Deplores Unregulated Use of Social Media #Thread https://t.co/375WIBXLwu
Happening Now: Welcome Introduction for the @UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week 2022 #GlobalMILWeek2022 at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja Nurturing Trust: A Media an...
To build on this, my personal belief is most counter-disinformation work fails to address the fundamental issues that lead to the creation of disinformation, and generally misunder...
I spent 10 years as a journalist in the US and China and wrote hundreds of stories in major websites and magazines. People wonder how fake information spreads. Here's how it really...
Here are the 10 most common logical fallacies that the government, media, and big corporations are using on you to keep you angry, confused, and terrified. There’s a reason these...
PRESS RELEASE Hosting UNESCO Confab Will Boost Campaign Against Fake News, Misinformation - Minister #Thread ⤵️ https://t.co/0Zu8VgWVRg
breaking news is the worst social media gets flooded w. downright misinformation, sensationalist garbage, and conspiracy theories designed to generate as much outrage and interact...
As long as we’re still able to hear two sides of the story we should continue striving to do so. https://t.co/ZjM3dtM5sq
How To Think For Yourself 19 questions that will improve the quality of your ideas:
We don't have a "misinformation" problem. We have a miseducation problem. People don't know what a fact is, and they don't know what to do with a fact even when one is handed to th...
How to understand anybody’s opinion: • Follow their media diet.
