LESSON 2 · Don't Get Fooled: Media Literacy
Build Your Defenses
Resistance is a set of habits:
- Learn the tricks until you spot them on sight in ads and speeches
- Widen your sources — one perspective means you live in an echo chamber
- Ask who benefits — every message has a sender with an agenda
- Distrust urgency — "act now before it is too late" is a pressure tactic
- Study old propaganda — past examples make today's easier to catch