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We need mandatory media literacy classes.
(hexbear.net)
"So we're trying to be more serious, the satire comes from the viewers' appreciation of how ridiculous the situation is with the war machine. It's funny because 1930's style propaganda to us in 2024 seems like 'how could people fall for this, this is such a joke.' Trust your government and all that kind of thing. Propaganda only works when you're not aware that it's working… we have to be very strong in our community sentiment to be able to shut down those groups that will use this as a way to like push different agendas. We're not about that, our studio and the game stand for being inclusive."
Hot Take: I think a lot of the really bad "media illiterate" takes you see are totally willful and the person making them is, at least, subconsciously aware it's bullshit, but it's bullshit that reinforces their worldview so they'll spew it nonetheless. As such I don't think mandatory media literacy classes would have any effect on these dorks, you could explain this shit in painstaking detail to them, and then they'd turn around and keep posting their "hot takes".
Yes, also true because the media literacy classes already exist and are called high school English. Still doesn’t matter because the kids will post “the curtains were fucking blue” from the back row