Infowars are so powerful, and we're so ill-prepared to meet them.

Yesterday, I was struck by how much media illiteracy reigns. How gullible we still are in every news cycle.

Is it genuine?

Or do people know full well what they're weaponizing?

That's the kind of despair infowars breed.

One no longer knows if one's neighbours are being honestly manipulated or eager participants in their own manipulation.

All one knows is that propaganda reigns, and has made the world unsafer yet again.

Anyway, good morning, and good Tuesday to all of you. ☕

We have *so* much psychological damage to address in the coming years.

But we're not going to heal overnight (if at all). And no coronal mass ejection is going to save us from problems online, alas.

All we can do is try not to be angry with ourselves and others for living through such stupid, cruel, and stressed-out times.

We're all doing the best we can. 🫂💛

@MLClark We do, indeed. The sad thing, IMHO, is that we won't get time to address it because the replacements are coming at such a frenetic pace.

In 25 years the US has gone from concern to outrage to concern to numbness over school shootings. We have to absorb the insanity to be ready for the next absurdity.

Sigh

@Graci

The part that makes me laugh-cry is the refrain, "I don't trust the news", usually uttered by people who haven't actually sharpened their media literacy--who aren't analysing the data they're receiving in any more systematic way, but are simply credulously believing whatever an alt-source says instead. And yet they'll be the first to roll their eyes at the Fox News crowd for being knee-jerk anti-consumers of media.

We're *all* susceptible to info silos.
And can't afford to forget that.