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Paid $60 for a fact-check course and it got one viral video wrong in the worst way
Honestly I got sucked into one of those "debunk like a pro" online courses after a clip about a flooded highway near Houston went viral in my feed. It cost me $60 and two weekends, and the main lesson was how to check old posts against local news archives. Sounds fine, except the course used that same flooded highway clip as its example and claimed it was from 2019. I found the original post from 2017 in about ten minutes on a local station's site, and the instructor's whole breakdown was built on the wrong disaster. When I emailed her a screenshot she said she'd "update the module" and never did. So now I'm stuck between wanting my money back and still using the archive trick, which does actually work. Has anyone else paid for one of these media literacy courses and found the examples were just as sloppy as the stuff they were tearing apart?
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