In a video ad that ran on Facebook in late July, former blogger turned video host Jill Simonian alleges that “American schools have traded knowledge-based education for activism.” Plato and civics are no longer part of the curriculum, she says. The accompanying text reads, “What has happened to American schools? Radical ideas about gender, race, and anti-Americanism are infiltrating the classroom. Is there anywhere that’s still safe for our kids? Yes! It’s called PragerU Kids.” The ad, according to Facebook owner Meta’s own disclosure, reached more than 20,000 people.
The video is one of more than 100 ads that PragerU Kids, an arm of the right-wing nonprofit media organization, PragerU—which
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