How denialists weaponize media literacy and what to do about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I7FVyQCjNg

danah boyd's SXSW Edu keynote, What Hath We Wrought? builds on her essay from 2017 about the relationship of media literacy education to the rise of conspiracy theories and the great epistemological rift in which significant numbers of people believe things that are clearly untrue, from climate denial to flat-earthing. (more…)