This is excelent article about media literacy. Not because its great article, but because it shows how much bullshit people write over the internet.
Nobody is teaching media literacy to 3 year olds in Finland.
Yes in the early childhood education program there is part of teaching children in kindergarden the basics of media, trough children games and fun. Its there because it helps to build fountation for later learning. Much in the same way kids learn about animals and colours trough song and games. Its not like there are classes where teachers make children to take quizzes amd get grade from the subject.
Also it has been in the program since 2018. Its not there specifically against Russian propaganda.
Maybe the AP should enroll into a Finnish kindergarten.
I feel like propaganda is the wrong word for what Russia is doing online.
Digital warfare is more about dividing your enemies and making them fight each other and waste resources, like they have successfully done with Americans.
It’s less about spreading your own agenda, and more about splitting others.
It’s not even division, I once heard it described as “planned destruction of concensus reality”. It’s what the idiots panicking over “Russian bots” and “Putin’s playbook” fundamentally fail to grasp: getting people who hate Russia to go on a never ending hunt for Russian bots is much easier than getting them to like Russia, but equally makes them counterproductive to local politics.
Like that story from a few weeks ago, an AIPAC media campaign against an anti-Israel politician is less effective than AIPAC donating to him and then leaking it. Or, ideally, both.
This is brilliant. And literally the only thing that will help Americans unfuck themselves. As a very small and detested group of intellectuals and academics have been saying for about sixty years now.
But it would make them harder to advertise to. No. Sorry. Can’t.