CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@AkaSci I have limited ideas, but an approach I am taking is
1) trying to help people in my life with media literacy. In particular I try to point out author credibility or lack there of. Because our world is built on technologies too complex to understand for yourself without dedicated study, producing solid sounding misinformation is so so easy, and often the only way to tell is to undertatand the authors incentives for making the content.
2) trying to use popular, non-polarized, and easily verifiable topics where I also carry some credibility to suggest “you’re being lied to”. People love public land, want clean water, etc. and of course those things are under attack right now. Fox and friends spun the fact that the forest service field offices are closing and the hq is going to Utah into just “forest service moves out west where it manages”. That’s an opportunity to erode some of their credibility. But fuck it’s tiresome, like youd think if people became convinced a source had just lied they’d change sources… I also try to push sources with the argument that they have been accurate for topics where I am an expert.