I hope we can shift attitudes like this:
“I’m also a very busy businessman and I don’t have time to fact-check everything that I put out there, especially when I don’t think it’s going out there for wide consumption.”
Says Eric Tucker, the man who helped start the rumor, and fake news stories, about "professional protesters" getting bused to anti-Trump rallies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/business/media/how-fake-news-spreads.html
It's always been a bad idea to spread misinformation (regardless of how few people you are talking to), but in the age of social media, we all have much more responsibility to be careful about what we state as fact.
“I’m also a very busy businessman and I don’t have time to fact-check everything that I put out there, especially when I don’t think it’s going out there for wide consumption.”
Says Eric Tucker, the man who helped start the rumor, and fake news stories, about "professional protesters" getting bused to anti-Trump rallies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/business/media/how-fake-news-spreads.html
It's always been a bad idea to spread misinformation (regardless of how few people you are talking to), but in the age of social media, we all have much more responsibility to be careful about what we state as fact.
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On the positive side, it appears Mr. Tucker did learn a lesson.