There’s an “old saying” coined not long after the start of the Internet era in the 1990s that is simple: “Don’t believe everything you see or read on the Internet.”
Great advice and advice that most Internet users have learned to heed. Still, it’s not all that uncommon for fake news to go viral, or old news to be found in recent posts as though it’s new news. It happened again recently when I got a note on Facebook Messenger from a friend who asked me, “Have you seen this?”
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