How far-right media brainwashed a father -- and a nation

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Thread: How right-wing media poisoned millions of Americans' minds and why progressives need to be much more serious about it.

This is a summary of the latest @TheoryChange featuring @Jen_Senko about her book & film "The Brainwashing of My Dad."

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How far-right media brainwashed a father — and a nation
Jen Senko discusses her book and film, ‘The Brainwashing of My Dad,’ and how to help people escape from conspiracist media
12:09 PM · May 15, 2022

https://flux.community/matthew-sheffield/2022/05/millions-americans-have-been-intellectually-poisoned-far-right-media-its

It’s well-known by now that disinformation media played a significant role in enabling the political rise of Donald Trump.

But the truth is that far right media has been misinforming Americans for many decades. Fake news was a long thing before Facebook and other words.

A lot of times, it’s hard for people who aren’t familiar with the topic to understand it in the broad sense, in terms of facts and figures and statistics. That’s why it can be useful often to look at an individual’s story and how disinformation has impacted individuals. And that’s why on today’s show, I am happy to be joined by Jen Senko.

She is the director producer and writer of The Brainwashing of My Dad, which started off as a documentary and is now a book. And it chronicles how far right radio and television hosts manipulated her father into believing all sorts of false and hateful ideas. And she’s turned it into a book as well.

The video of our conversation is below. The transcript of the edited audio follows.

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1. Absolutely!

[Cha]

2. I've thought of this for years.. and

of course, it's only gotten Exponentially Worse

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