With the presidential campaign going strong, it is a good time to share this again. Some seem to be working overtime at filling social media with posts that simply are not true. Unfortunately, there are many who believe whatever they read.
A Firestorm of Misinformation, Rich Paschall
There are always items in the news that bring out the social media commentators. There’s the economy, Obama Care, and campaign finance laws. There are Pipelines and Trade Agreements. There is religious freedom and freedom of speech. It is that Freedom of Speech thing that lets the haters and misinformers run rampant on the internet.
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It seems a lot of people have time to create graphics with so-called information and historical quotes (internet memes). Some are very artistically created with nice pictures of a president or other important historical person in the background. If you are on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter enough, it seems some of these historical figures are speaking out of both sides of their mouths. One…
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