5 Easy ways to Spot a B.S News Story on the Internet
The Internet, while awesome, is also a mind-boggling marvel of bullshit production and dissemination. A misleading or outright fake news story can get forwarded on Facebook a million times before Snopes.com can even write up their rebuttal (no, oral sex does not prevent breast cancer). Since the rise of social media, we get more and more of our news from each other, and far, far too many of us aren't asking ourselves the important question:
"Is the amazing news I'm about to share even fucking true?"
Because most of the time, we don't need somebody else to debunk these stories for us -- not if we know what to look for.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-easy-ways-to-spot-b.s.-news-story-internet/#ixzz2M87j6yI2
Damn but Cracked just hit it out of the park. Almost everyone of these things I find myself screeching out a whole lot on FB. I figure peeps here could get good use out of this too.
I know Leftish Brit is happy to see the major smackdown of the Daily Mail.
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