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Didn't you see the picture of the guy looking sad? What more proof do you need?!?
Fixed. Sorry.
But it's not like I didn't include the quote of the headline to find the story.
Dude. Are we living in an age of misinformation and disinformation or are you the lone person not overreacting? Because I think we are living in an age of misinformation and disinformation.
No gas at all. Pumping the brakes in fact. Forgetting a link happens, and they were quick to address it, which is why I was just gently pushing back on their minimization of the need for a link.
Forgetting a link is innocent, the thought process the suggests that an image alone can be informative, and that a link might be in some way redundant; in this age that is insidious and should be called out before it takes hold. You’re welcome to feel I’m overreacting, but I will politely disagree with you.
This, truth, isn’t going to get any easier any time soon, and folks who care about it need to look out for each other with accountability.
But it wasn't an image alone. If it was I'd 100% understand a strong rebuke. But I included the entire paragraph headline of the article that had all the information needed to verify the story.
The link itself is only a convience because you should verify the content against multiple sources. It's the content that's important, and I posted that.
The quote had all the details to verify the story through search engines so it wasn't potential misinformation. I forgot to post the link and I'm sorry.
But the link only saves everyone time. It in itself didn't provide any more evidence.