> Every time something new happens in the world, my younger kids ask me about what they saw on Tik-Tok and their initial understanding is shaped by a well funded actor, and is often completely a false narrative.

As someone who remembers the near lack of anti-war voices on network/cable news in the lead-up to the Iraq War (Donahue on MSNBC being the lone example), I'd like to get more details on your strongest example here.

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le-mark 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

There wasn’t much but the mostly fabricated WMD narrative was questioned a lot. Now the current administration makes an endless stream of fantasies and lies which go almost entirely unchallenged.

	▲	jancsika 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		> There wasn’t much but the mostly fabricated WMD narrative was questioned a lot. Cable and network news did not question that narrative, aside from the exception I mentioned. Read David Barstow's Pulitzer-winning stories in NYT-- cable news shows even had retired generals pushing for war without disclosing all kinds of conflicts of interest. Edit: I should add that in reality there were protests with record numbers of people during the buildup to the Iraq War, and there were many articulate arguments against the war by all kinds of people. However, that was not the narrative presented in Network/Cable News.

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mkoubaa 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The average adult has a carefully curated understanding of the world based on a completely false narrative but nobody clutches their pearls about that

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concinds 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm guessing they mean Gaza, and that the author is pro-Israel. Which really undermines their point.