Media Literacy 101 - What’s Legit & What To Quit

American Fever Dream

Betches

News, Politics, Daily News

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

00:00 Welcome to your guide on media literacy. V and Sami explore how social media is used in hybrid warfare to manipulate public opinion through disinformation and emphasize the need to rebuild social trust. 16:00 How can you spot a bot? In a few easy steps you too can spot disinformation through fake accounts, false engagement, and artificial intelligence. 50:00 Don’t forget to mind the gap. Sami and V give listeners the tools to combat problematic accounts and how to find reliable information. 1:00:00 Where does this leave trad media? While traditional media can still be used as a reliable source of information, listeners should be wary of their overlords. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Rise and I'm Sammy Sage
0:05.0	this is the Spear and I'm Sammy Sage
0:07.5	and this is American Fever Dream presented by Betches News
0:11.1	where we explore the absurdities and oddities of our uniquely American
0:15.0	experience.
0:16.4	And as promised, we are talking about some absurdities and oddities today.
0:20.8	We have a special episode for you this week on media literacy.
0:24.0	This is going to be your official American Fever Dream Guide to parsing through what you're
0:29.3	seeing on social media, in reporting, or even hearing straight from your Maga uncle's mouth firsthand.
0:35.8	Our goal with this episode and all of our episodes is to help you be a better consumer of information
0:41.3	this election cycle and beyond. I'm excited to try out this
0:44.8	new format be. Well guess what, pal it is announcement time. I'm something I'm
0:49.7	very excited to share with you all. Tell us, tell us.
0:53.0	So I was just appointed to be the next media-wise
0:56.0	ambassador at the Pointer Institute.
0:58.0	Joining the ranks of queer icon and legacy journalist
1:00.8	Lester Holt, CNN's Christiane Amman Poor, Joan London,
1:05.3	Jessica Yellen, John Green, and our collective mission is to teach people how to
1:09.7	sort fact from fiction online and slow the spread of misinformation. This media-wise
1:15.0	Ambassadorship is part of the Pointer Institute which is a prestigious
1:18.2	nonprofit media Institute newsroom that provides fact-checking media literacy
1:21.9	and journalism ethics training to
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