REGISTER: Media Literacy Training + Fundraiser

Bette Members—please register for an hour of media literacy training on Tuesday, April 13, 10 Pacific with Tamar Kintsurashvili + practice links!

***Bette Members: Please register for Tuesday’s event — link can be found below the paywall at the bottom of this post. This event is open to all levels of paid membership. If you would like to attend our weekly Happy Hour and Speakeasy events, please take out a membership and help support independent investigative journalism.***

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I am honored that Tamar Kintsurashvili is returning to Bette Dangerous on Tuesday. We are dedicating our weekly Happy Hour to a media literacy training workshop led by Tamar, who is the Executive Director of Georgia’s Media Development Foundation.

She herself is the target of terror campaigns led by pro-Russian operatives in her country, as she defends citizens against information warfare and defends media NGOs in her home country from being forced to register as foreign agents.

In Ep97, she describes how Georgia is defending democracy:

More about Tamar here:

‘Georgia Needs West to Survive from Russia’ — An Interview with Tamar Kintsurashvili

THIS EVENT IS FREE TO ALL PAID MEMBERS, but if you are able to make a donation, it really helps do this work. Thank you to all who have already donated!

Last month’s Zoom training/fundraiser helped underwrite the traveling I am doing for work, and I am so grateful.

MEDIA LITERACY ADVANCE TRAINING — Practice Links!

Here are links from Tamar to her group’s media literacy web-page, with games where you can test your media literacy in advance of Tuesday. Let me know how you do.

Also, check out Operation Infection — see how well you understand Russian propaganda:

She also shared her fact-checking on Tucker Carlson’s statement regarding the war in Ukraine (you may have to click on Eng from home page):

And here is more information on how Carlson’s statement was amplified in different countries — available in this report from page 67: 

As noted in that report:

The monitoring revealed one case related to the anti-liberal discourse, which was disseminated in Georgia, Russia, Belarus and other post-Soviet countries in a coordinated manner and through various communication channels in relation to the war in Ukraine.146 The purpose of the instance was to divert attention from the topic of war to other sensitive issues such as identity. In addition to distracting attention (from Russia’s responsibility to the responsibility of the US), the method of distortion was also used to change the prevalent narrative around Russia’s intervention in Ukraine with the one about the religious war between the US and Russia.

The mentioned incident includes various elements (manipulation, disinformation) and phases (creation-interpretation, dissemination, localization) of informational disorder:

1. Initial Statement: US Congressman Jamie Raskin made a statement148 in which he called Russia “the world center of hatred” due to violations of fundamental human rights (anti-feminist, anti-gay, anti-trans) and underscored the need to support Ukraine;

2. Manipulative Interpretation: Fox News host Tucker Carlson interpreted the congressman’s words in a manipulative way and attributed the words to Jamie Raskin as if he was demanding the destruction of Russia at any cost because of its Orthodoxy: “Russia is an Orthodox country with traditional values, and for that reason, it must be destroyed.”

I know it will be a riveting hour, and I’m looking forward to learning with you.

Founding Members: I will send out a separate invite to premium members for our upcoming Founder’s Day event on Sunday, August 11, 1:30 pm Pacific with Sian Norris. Founder’s Day is a monthly event allowing me to thank those of you who support me at the highest level. Here is another excellent report from Sian — author of Bodies Under Siege. If you would like to attend Founder’s Day events, please upgrade your membership to the premium level.

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