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> No doubt. One of these days we might successfully drill into people's skulls "Stop getting your news from social media; that's not news that's rumors."

It's much worse than rumors: it's often deliberately misconstrued/out of context, or outright lies.

Rumors I don't mind so much, since they're usually pretty obvious.

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Indeed. Then again "the news" is well known for carefully editorialising things and conflating unverified sources as facts on and off. General journalistic standards have been compromised because there's a race to get the information in front of people faster than social media and it is now seen as ok to correct it later. This is mostly online though. Print and televised media is usually not as real time.

Everything is a shit show.

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