 It gives us useful tools, things we can do about what's happening. It helps us deconstruct and understand the complicated media ecosystems in which we now try to survive. Critical media literacy education is really an antidote to all of this kind of chaos. It really helps us stop, slow down, and think critically about what's happening, what's being beamed at us. Why do certain platforms and why do the corporate media tell the stories they do? And what about the stories they don't tell?