I’m so sick of everyone in power jockeying for more power via deception and manipulation.
Our entire planet is now run by the people are who are the worst human being you can imagine.
Honestly they’ve repeatedly been worse than I have been able to imagine
Disgusting
What is the answer to Russia’s propaganda warfare?
Do we cut them off from the internet? What happens when they launch attacks from other countries…
Do we firewall ourselves in from the rest of the world? Terrible solution on its face for obvious reasons…
Do we educate people better to spot propaganda? How can you educate someone who doesn’t want to learn, and genuinely believes in these things…What can be done about this? Regime change in Russia? Will Nk just take up the troll job?
It seems like a fight we are destined to lose without an a population that can see through the bullshit, would love to hear some other ideas though.
cf. Finland
Excellent media literacy and digital literacy education built into an excellent foundation of general education, with the government supporting people’s awareness of the centuries of bullshit from Tsars and Soviet expansionism and oligarchs.
Basically mind vaccines.
Any chance you have a book recommendation to read more about there system? I would love to hear some of the theoretical stuff!
Nothing specific to Finland, I am not a historian and familiar enough with the details of their system. Here is a brief overview for you.
However, there is an enormous body of literature regarding media literacy, and a smaller, but still helpful, and mostly online, set of resources for digital literacy.
In Canada, a good resource is https://mediasmarts.ca/
There are undoubtedly media literacy resources available to you from your particular region, which may address regional issues like Russian propaganda.
ay thank you friend, I really appreciate the resources and information - sorry I assumed you were an expert off the bat, media literacy is so important its great to share resources like this at any opportunity <3
Ordinary education starting at a young age about fundamental prosocial values, dignity, and shared (and local) interests. Critical thinking skills and practice asking questions like “how will this actually help? Where is it coming from? Cui bono?”
And just being open-minded and not overly emotional (and thus easily manipulated).
And point out that unfortunately many entities out there are more than happy to use them as pawns and care not a wit about the wellbeing of them or their friends, neighbours, or loved ones.
But, putting that into schools would be decried as the boogeyman of “socialism” or even xenophobia or something. Irony
totally agree overall, except we have so many millions of people who did not receive any of this education early, if at all.
I worry for the next 20 years.
Do not forget China, they are highly trying to mess with Canadian election too.
They are? Why? Do you have any examples?
Haha nice try, if you are Canadian you see this in the news at each election. A simple search will show you all the info you want.
It’s even documented in wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_government_interference_in_the_2019_and_2021_Canadian_federal_elections
and even on official Canadian election site https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=abo&dir=comp%2Fmar0223&document=p2&lang=e
While several opposition political parties had called for a full-scale judicial inquiry into the allegations, Johnston recommended against this, stating that the intelligence information is considered “top secret” and could not be discussed in a fully-open inquiry. Johnston intended to continue his inquiry with public hearings and a final report in October 2023, but instead resigned as the special rapporteur on June 9.
This really sounds like a lot of hype for something not that big, the 2nd page mentions a 250k donation, thats a pretty small figure when the elections cost 600m
