alt Hacker News> 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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mkoubaa • last Thursday at 1:13 AM
The average adult has a carefully curated understanding of the world based on a completely false narrative but nobody clutches their pearls about that
concinds • last Thursday at 11:03 AM
I'm guessing they mean Gaza, and that the author is pro-Israel. Which really undermines their point.
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.