the_dunk_tank
It's the dunk tank.
This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.
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Adding on to this, you should show them videos on YouTube that were proven false. One example I can think of is Joey Salah's video about Trump cars being vandalized in black neighborhoods. People not part of his video caught the video on film from other angles. There's one where you can see Salah talking to a group of people, who all ended up being the "vandals" in the video. Turns out, he hired a bunch of black actors under false pretenses, got the footage of them smashing cars with Trump bumper stickers, then edited all together to look like they were random people.
The whole thing got exposed and there's videos of it explaining the whole thing. You can show your kids how footage can be edited to reinforce biases (in this example: "black people are violent and will attack you or your property for any reason") and how sites like YouTube use content like this to generate revenue through controversy.
Project Veritas is another. It was also an early adopter of deep fakes, using them to make people say things they didn't. Deep fakes of politicians saying stuff would be another example. The Biden-Vaporeon copy pasta is a hoot (probably not age appropriate for 9-year-olds. I dunno. I'm only an uncle).