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Month: December 2017

The old is new again: States want schools to teach students “media literacy”

The old is new again: States want schools to teach students “media literacy”

State lawmakers around the country are pushing schools to put more emphasis on teaching students how to tell fact from fiction online, a skill they say is critical to democracy. Lawmakers have introduced or passed bills calling on public school systems to develop lessons for a form of instruction called “media literacy.” Alarmed by fake news, states push media literacy in schools We did this when I was a kid in elementary school. We were asked to read a newspaper…

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The old is new again: States want schools to teach students "media literacy"

The old is new again: States want schools to teach students "media literacy"

State lawmakers around the country are pushing schools to put more emphasis on teaching students how to tell fact from fiction online, a skill they say is critical to democracy. Lawmakers have introduced or passed bills calling on public school systems to develop lessons for a form of instruction called “media literacy.” Alarmed by fake news, states push media literacy in schools We did this when I was a kid in elementary school. We were asked to read a newspaper…

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Facebook deletes FB, Instagram accounts of Head of Chechen Republic

Facebook deletes FB, Instagram accounts of Head of Chechen Republic

The Head of the Chechen Republic is the title formerly known as “President of Chechen Republic”. The strongman leader of the Chechen Republic has long been a prolific social media user, filling his accounts with photos of him cuddling his cat, lifting weights or soliciting poems about President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. So when Ramzan Kadyrov’s Facebook and Instagram accounts, which had four million followers between them, were unexpectedly taken down on Dec. 23, people took notice. A Facebook…

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Twitter curates the Tweets you see

Twitter curates the Tweets you see

Many Twitter tweets I see are from people I do not follow yet their tweets appear in my Twitter feed. Why? Twitter inserts them because they can! Twitter inserts others tweets into each of our feeds based on its own secret algorithms. By choosing to insert tweets from people we choose not to follow, Twitter introduces its own potential propaganda messaging. 100% of such tweets I checked are political in nature – and I do not know why I am…

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We watched a social media propaganda theme explode in real time – and you won't believe what happened next!

We watched a social media propaganda theme explode in real time – and you won't believe what happened next!

This past week we learned about social media idiots! In a world where facts and logic no longer matter, a train derailment on the first paying passenger run on a brand new, $181 million upgraded rail corridor, completed as part of an $800 million dollar infrastructure upgrade, is: An example of America’s “crumbling infrastructure” An example of America’s lack of investment in infrastructure An example that future budgets (which might cut infrastructure spending) caused this crash, in the present An…

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