What To Do When Your Friends E-mail Lies To You

Brooks Jackson, writing at the Annenberg Political Fact Checker, tells us:

Let me put the matter bluntly: an awful lot of the e-mailed messages zipping around the Internet are lies -- and too many are being sent on by gullible, lazy friends who ought to know better.

These falsehoods are multiplying like viruses as recipients forward them to their entire list of friends without making the slightest effort to verify what's being claimed, often with cover messages saying something like, "You HAVE to read this!"

This cyber-sickness should stop. All it takes is a little bit of common sense and skepticism, some curiosity and a few keystrokes. Nailing these lies can even be fun.

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Posted by trygstad | Category: Rant | 02:45 PM