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A lot of propaganda is not actually misinformation.
A lot of propaganda is not even half-truths.
A lot of propaganda actually is telling you the truth, but is feeding you a specific conclusion that the author wants you to draw from it.
This makes it a lot more robust, because if you go searching for sources to confirm the information, you'll find them!
So an important thing in evaluating information is not just "Is this true?" but also:
"Wait, does this lead inevitably to the conclusion this person is presenting? What other conclusions could I draw here? What other reasons for this piece of info could there be? How does this information fit into what I already know?"
"What are the motivations of the person who wrote or created this? Why did they want me to draw that conclusion? Do they themselves believe the conclusion they're drawing, or are they just trying to convince me? If they do believe it themself, why? If not, why are they trying to convince me? What's going on for them here?"
"What other pieces of information might I be missing? What am I extrapolating without noticing? What did this person deliberately leave out, or want me to ignore or gloss over? What other contexts and comparisons are applicable here?"
"How does this information with in with not only the specific conclusion that is presented, but with the author's overarching thesis? When I use it, how well does it fit into my thesis? When I take a step back, does this piece of information actually make any sense as supporting evidence for this person's thesis?"
Hopefully this is helpful, and can help your skills at evaluating information and arguments become more robust!
everyone on r/aita is doing polyamory so wrong and i think they could learn something from tommyinnit. I'm not going to say hes doing it any better but he is being really funny about it
The warrior cats/dsmp/cookie run type fandoms are the best most entertaining fandoms ever actually cause it will never not be funny to see all these enormous long posts about complicated plot lines and discourse about which characters are unforgivable war criminals and then the characters are named shit like twigbranch and mexican dream and fucking almond and you look them up and they just look like this
It's happening again, guys. More fics are 'disappearing' because someone changes a collection to private.
All the fics in that collection also change to 'unrevealed' and no one can find them or read them anymore. Only the owner of the collection can.
This is what you will see if the fic is part of a private/unrevealed collection⬇️
Only the author can remove their fic from an unrevealed collection. Ao3 sends you an email warning you that a collection your fic is part of has changed the status to unrevealed.
(This is the email you receive⬇️)
The BIG problem here is that if the author is no longer active on Ao3 and don't check the mails, the fic will be lost forever!
Please make sure you have this option unchecked in your preferences if you don't want your works added to collections without your consent⬇️
Be careful with allowing people to add your fics to collections, guys. I have deleted all the collections from my fics and I won't allow any collection requests anymore.
SHARE THIS to make more people aware of this problem!
T.G.I.F !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank guns im friday. Last night.My husband went missing in the darkness but i found him flat on his back in a field. And all around him chunks of dirt were missing from the ground. Shephards pie for dinner
wanted to do smth in paint that would be similar to my previous ''poetry comic'' and remembered that my friends rlly liked wisława's poetry so looked thru some of her titles i remembered and boom. this happened
i think mcyt fans are stronger than eldritch gods for how much we go through if you’ve been here since 2019 i’m so sorry you’re like a war veteran to me
mcrp is like little girls playing with barbie dolls making the most complex, deep and kinda horrifying story ever but the girls are actually full grown men and i think that is a beautiful thing