Again hard to say because a lot of manipulation happened through Cambridge Analytica & Facebook.
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Indeeed, it seems to end up back at education. If we teach people proper research skills they can look things up and make up their own minds by looking at both sides of an argument, look a the evidence and draw conclusions. BUT also debate with others.
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I guess the question
"is the military ethical" depends on how you view that, the National guard is part of the Military and yet they do humanitarian stuff during disasters, the military also provide aid to other countries or help out in emergencies. "
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We need a balance between personal truth and having a way to trust domain experts.
This is a good essay on the downsides to media literacy.
Critically interrogating media is a technique and can be deployed in many ways.
https://points.datasociety.net/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you-7cad6af18ec2