Media: New Yorker – Israel is restricting Gazan workers in Israel
Intended as a sympathy story for Gazans, it ignore that Gazan workers, pre-October 7th massacre, were gathering intelligence on Israel targets.
NPR: Over population bad, now population decline is bad
NPR can’t make up its mind.
Media: “The American Dream is Dead”
“The American Dream is Dead” trope has been around for 50+ years, is not true, but the media loves running these nonsense stories to ruin your life.
What countries have voter identification requirements?
Half of US states and most countries of the world require photo ID to vote. About 12 US states accept alternative identification and 13 have no ID requirements.
Europeans claim U.S. has banned 23,000 books
But it is not true. Not even close.
Social media: Emotional and Touching Videos are Often Fake
Touching videos, like this, of an elderly teacher reading a thank you note from a former student, who turns out to be her surgeon who has saved her life – are typically staged productions.
Propaganda works by combining believable info into untrue conclusions
An online meme notes that the % of “married”, “homeowners” is low. It is a real decline but they’ve combined 2 independent variables to make it look worse.
Where Gen Z is traveling in 2025
The “struggling” generation for which everything is awful is apparently planning a lot of international travel for the fall of 2025, says AirBnb.
Media: “homeless encampment” is “off-the-grid neighborhood”
They are not “homeless”, they are an “off-the-grid neighborhood”.
Media: Canada’s “mass graves” story collapsed
Several years ago, the world erupted in anger over allegations that perhaps 1000s of indigeneous children had died in Canadian schools and were buried in unmarked graves. The story turned out not to be true.