Underground Usa
For The Love Of Baby Jesus, Fact-Check Yourselves, People!
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
- Editora: Podcast
- Duração: 0:32:47
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I want to discuss what we all must do to tamp down the fake news that has exploded onto the social media scene. It is cancerous to the point that the elitist mainstream media has fallen prey, quoting and using social media posts as if they were facts, triple-sourced by actual journalists.The fact of the matter is this. In the information age, when most people have smartphones with internet access, there is absolutely no excuse for not checking – at least in a cursory manner – to see if what you are posting, forwarding, re-posting, or retweeting isn’t fact-based. It takes less than ten seconds to highlight a subject and put it into a web browser to see what comes up.Case in point – and I have to admit some people I hold in high esteem have fallen to this. There is a popular sentiment being reposted across most social media platforms in the aftermath of the Trump assassination attempt that reads:“I think this goes without saying…but the chief of the @SecretService shouldn’t come from the company who sells Pepsi