It is quite a long read, but an important one to see the global scale and how propaganda during a global pandemic only caused additional victims.
Whatever information we are getting from social media can never be taken for face value but people generally do. This critical thinking and making our own investigations is something we typically don't do.
Once there is doubt, you can research what you want but there's always the 'yes, but...' part in the argument.
Established news outlets also are to blame as many are there for financial gain and want to earn and need to earn money to survive, thus, news consumption is very important.
For the public it is almost impossible to see when a news outlet is blatantly voicing out a press release without further thoughts or when they present their critical thoughts about it. I like black coffee. Even if they do so, it is somewhere at the bottom and the clickbait is at the top.
Let's test. How many of you pressed on see more, opened the article, read it fully and got personally engaged with the article and this post? This also has quite some words and who has the patience to read it?
For example, what coffee do I like?
If we can't, how can we get our students to read, engage and be informed in global affairs?
Insightful