"Even in an age of misinformation and disinformation - which we really need to start clearly calling propaganda - we continue to rely on old ways of knowing. We take it for granted that if we really need to get to the truth, there's a way to do it, even if it means cracking the pages of one of those ancient conveyors of wisdom, a book."
"Armstrong is composed and steady in this image. A veteran of social justice movements and a trained attorney, she appears as one might expect, her expression troubled but calm. In the photo released by the White House, Armstrong is sobbing, her mouth hanging open in despair. In what is clearly nothing more than overt racism, it appears her skin has been darkened. Her braided hair, neatly styled in the original picture, is disheveled in the Trump image."
People often learn from schools, newspapers, social media, and conversations. Misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda are undermining those sources and making reliable knowledge harder to find. Authoritarians use fear and force to seize power in the short term and rely on ignorance and erasure of knowledge in the long term to control future generations. The White House released an altered photo of Nekima Levy Armstrong arrested protesting inside a church: the original shows her handcuffed and composed, while the altered image depicts her sobbing, darker-skinned, and with disheveled hair. The manipulation illustrates racialized image distortion and a broader war on truth.
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