Some of the most pervasive and Orwellian left-wing censorship organizations are getting into public schools and deciding what sources and viewpoints students can be exposed to, according to a recent report by the Foundation for Freedom Online (FFO). Under the guise of promoting “digital citizenship” or “media literacy,” blatantly partisan organizations such as NewsGuard, the Southern Poverty Law Center, and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue are implementing school curricula in more than a dozen states.
Media literacy is described by Media Literacy Now, a grassroots organization lobbying state legislatures to mandate media literacy education in schools, as “knowing”.[ing] how to consume and evaluate information, ask critical questions, avoid manipulation, and participate in digital spaces safely.” However, according to the FFO, these “media literacy” programs appear to “instruct students to distrust any source or narrative that is not approved by the establishment”.
“A media literacy curriculum promoted by the California Department of Education advises students to rely on “fact checkers' with a history of partisan bias in one lesson,” reports the FFO, “and in another push the students dismiss criticisms of progressive arguments about climate change by questioning the source of the argument. A Rhode Island teacher expressed concern that a DHS-funded 'media literacy' training program for K-12 teachers was 'hyper-focused' on Donald Trump.”
Here's a summary of the FFO of three of the supposedly “non-partisan” organizations pushing “media literacy” programs on young Americans:
- The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a highly controversial partisan organization with a long history of political scandals, false accusations, i requests for social media platforms to censor political speech, has a “Digital Literacy” Curriculum. for K12 schools that is recommended as a media literacy resource for the California Department of Education for use in schools.
- NewsGuarda private company that sells blacklists of disfavored news websites to the advertising industry in order to slow them down economicallytoo advertises its blacklists as a media literacy resource for use in schools, universities and public libraries. NewsGuard claims its blacklists are in use in 800 public libraries in the US and Europe. It has an association with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), which promised to roll out NewsGuard's media literacy tools to “tens of millions of students.”
- The Institute for Strategic Dialogue: A global nonprofit at the forefront of efforts to censor 'hate' and 'disinformation', ISD combines populism – a political movement whose leading figures include Donald Trump – with extremism. ISD has described skepticism about climate change and COVID policies as “disinformation” that should be censored. In testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, independent journalist and best-selling author Michael Shellenberger claims that the organization directed him directly to the censure. The non-profit organization now wants to teach media literacy to schoolchildren through its Be Internet Citizens Initiativewhich is, like the SPLC curriculum, recommended as a media literacy teaching resource from the California Department of Education.
The authoritarian left wants to control the minds of all Americans, but especially impressionable children. By conditioning children to trust only left-wing sources and narratives, Democrats will secure their political power while destroying free thought and intellectual diversity in America for decades to come.
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