Rich Logis, a former voter for former President Trump, appeared in a video message broadcast to the Democratic National Convention on Monday night to say that the COVID-19 pandemic showed him how Trump was “lying about pretty much everything.”
“I believed Trump,” he said. “When the pandemic hit, we needed leadership, but we were given almost nothing. It was a major betrayal to the country.”
Logis described himself as a “full-fledged member of MAGA” and encouraged fellow voters that there was still time to change their minds about whom to cast a ballot for in November.
You’re still not immune. You’ve been given tools to identify something as propaganda, but propaganda works not just because people lack those skills, but because they weren’t using those skills when they encountered it. Propaganda can come from anywhere, so unless you’re always fact checking everything everyone says, you are not immune to propaganda.
Um, one thing that helps is reading the entire message, including disclaimers…
Also, please don’t try to reduce media literacy to fact checking, you’ll just get hung up on authenticity.