An even more depressing number of people believes that the protest didn’t happen.
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MD756@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And I’m sure a depressing number of people will believe it’s real
vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
McJonalds@lemmy.world 1 year ago
yes, and then a counter-misinformation war based on words and phrases that include “Its all AI generated”, “its not real”, “youre stupid for believing this” will take place and what we end up with is a generation that doesnt believe tiananmen square happened, or at best is skeptical of it. rinse and repeat for more dark spots in history and you’ve essentially hidden any lesson your prime-for-the-raping common populace has ever learned under a rug of misinformation
mPony@kbin.social 1 year ago
In Canada in the 1980's there was a short TV commercial about media literacy portrayed as a nature documentary, about the endangered Canadian House Hippo. After 15 seconds the commercial pauses and a voice asks if you actually believed what you were seeing, encouraging viewers to think critically about what they saw on TV.
These days the closest thing to that is snopes.com , and people have to actively seek that out. Without the House Hippo it is us who are endangered.