Dave Jorgensen

Don't delete this.

Scared the crap out of me.

This is starting to sound familiar.

Once there was a man giving 10x, suddenly it all went to chaos.

Forward this email.

Everyone forward it.

Get out your phones.

So obviously, we figured out eventually that these emails were scams, and so were the Nigerian princes that shared them.

Though my Nigerian prince was real.

Basically, I spent a lot of my job as a journalist trying to explain to people what they're getting wrong online versus actually talking about breaking news, because all of this is so complicated.

And there's a word for that in understanding media.

It's called media literacy, which is best defined as the ability to access, analyze, evaluate and create media in various forms.

So I kind of soft-launched my career into media literacy with this viral Pez video.

I don't know if anyone saw this, this was back in 2021.

It was someone showing you a Pez dispenser and that you can actually load it by putting the candy in through the bottom.

That is patently false.

I was very angry to see this video going viral and all the comments saying, wow, I didn't know that.

Well, you didn't know it because it wasn't true.

And as someone who's made 5,000 journalism TikToks, I was like, I'm getting to the bottom of this.

Here's the video.