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Got called out for sharing a half-baked news article and it changed how I post
Last month I linked to a story about a city council blocking a protest permit. Someone replied with a link to the actual council meeting minutes showing I missed key context. They were polite about it, just said 'you might want to read the full transcript first.' Now I wait at least an hour before sharing anything breaking and try to find the original source document. Has anyone else had a similar moment where a simple correction totally shifted your approach?
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leehall1mo ago
Walk into any gas station or grocery store and half the conversations you overhear are people repeating something they barely half-heard. Saw a guy at the parts store yesterday telling his buddy that the new emissions law would make all trucks illegal to drive by next year. Total nonsense when you actually look it up, but his buddy walked away believing it. The whole thing is like a game of telephone where nobody stops to say "wait, let me check that." Getting called out on a bad link is just a small dose of that same medicine. We're all swimming in bad info and most people just splash around without thinking twice.
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Is it really that big of a deal to just repost something without fact-checking every single detail first? Most people scroll past half the stuff they see anyway, so one wrong detail doesn't ruin anyone's day. Seems like you handled it fine by slowing down a little, but I wouldn't call it a total shift in approach.
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brianm661mo ago
Not that big of a deal" until everyone does it and nobody can trust anything anymore.
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