Wednesday, October 23 - Fact versus feeling: How voters decide what's real

23/10/2024 10 min
Wednesday, October 23 - Fact versus feeling: How voters decide what's real

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Episode Synopsis

With the election now less than two weeks away, airwaves and social media feeds are flooded with ads for candidates and causes. This cycle, those messages increasingly rely on inflammatory language...and loose facts. We spoke about this trend with Professor Natasha Casey, a media literacy educator at Lincoln Land Community College and with the Media Literacy Lab.