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Why are we allowing it to be called "fake news" rather than what we should be calling it, which is, just totally made up?
How is it not lying to the public, how is that not illegal?
It's not even at the level of positive/negative interpretation of news events so that it benefits a political viewpoint. It is simply straight up made up lies.
Can't wait to see them teach kids "anyone who disagrees with you is wrong".
Looks like they aren't teaching critical thinking only telling the kids what is "fake news".
Remember when they told us there were WMDs in Iraq? Well if you questioned the narrative then you were called a liar, disloyal to your people or outright fake news.
Now we all know the official story was horse shit and wmds never existed.
So, again, what are they really teaching these kids?
Media literacy, did you read the article?
Yes, did you?
Then I don’t really follow your reasoning…
Define media literacy.
Define 'fake news'.
Define 'alternative facts'
Define personal bias
And do it without being led by the nose by identity politicking or 'feelings' over facts.
They did not dictate the implementation of a neutral oversight committee to insure critical thinking skills, they're only adding what the current administration views as a 'requirement for media literacy' without defining what that actually means to them.
Hence my DIRECT comparison to the horse shit everyone went through in the early 00s