https://deceit.blog/tag/media-literacy Essays on what manipulation costs and why it lands. Tagged "media-literacy". en Thu, 24 Sep 2026 08:08:07 GMT 60 https://deceit.blog/essay/red-scare-lazy-and-losing https://deceit.blog/essay/red-scare-lazy-and-losing Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. American anti communist propaganda has one move. It has had this move since the 1950s, and it has not updated it. The move is: call the thing communism. The thing can be anything. Healthcare. Rent control. A children's educator posting photos of starving toddlers. A state assemblyman who caucuses wi… https://deceit.blog/essay/architecture-of-denial https://deceit.blog/essay/architecture-of-denial Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. The most accurate description of Gaza is not a viral slogan. It is a documented legal and political pattern. In September 2025, the United Nations Human Rights Council's Independent International Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israeli authorities and security forces had committed and were cont… https://deceit.blog/essay/the-threat-premise https://deceit.blog/essay/the-threat-premise Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. A sitting president stood in the Oval Office on August 10, 2026, and told reporters: "We have jihadists being elected all over the place, whether it's communism [or] jihadism." He added that "people don't want to have radical lunatics involved in running our country." In the same remarks he said Som… https://deceit.blog/essay/the-same-machinery https://deceit.blog/essay/the-same-machinery Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT Explain. The question is not whether one side lies more. The research answers that. The question is whether the machinery of deception is partisan property, or whether the same shapes appear regardless of who runs them. The answer matters because a media literacy project that only names manipulation on one s…