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rats (rats@refusal.biz)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 04:13:30 JST rats
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@NolesW6 @p @11112011

> how does a poorly educated media illiterate society begin to understand the difference between what’s real information and what’s false.

i feel like i'm pretty media literate and i /still/ struggle with this

feel like i need to just be constantly adjusting my bullshit detector

i deal with it mainly by only trying to care about things that i can 'do something' about / would require some change from me, doing whatever changes or preparations make sense or feel appropriate, and assuming that + everything else i ever hear is some to-be-determined mix of fact and lie

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rats (rats@refusal.biz)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 04:13:16 JST rats
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@Moon @11112011 @MischievousTomato @NolesW6 @p

it only gets harder and harder when you reach the point of being like "well, the news sucks, but maybe i can find some objective truth in studies and data points" and realizing that that is a very similar mess

how does anyone /know/ anything? serious question

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rats (rats@refusal.biz)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Nov-2022 04:13:16 JST rats
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@Moon @MischievousTomato @11112011 @p @NolesW6

> all our news outlets are fake news just in service of bigger, establishment lies.

exactly! that's what i meant about media literacy only helping you so much, because everything is basically a lie

it becomes about figuring out how to construct narratives you have faith in when all the materials available are dubious

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