HATE, ANGER AND SOCIAL MEDIA

The bombast of social media continues. It seems a good time to revisit these thoughts from just a year ago. Are they not still true? Be sure to click “View original post” at the bottom to head over to SERENDIPITY for the rest of the article.

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A Firestorm of Misinformation, Rich Paschall

There are always items in the news that bring out the social media commentators. There’s the economy, some collusion, and Supreme Court appointments. There are Trade tariffs and Trade Agreements. There is religious freedom and freedom of speech. It is that Freedom of Speech thing that lets the haters and misinformed run rampant on the internet.

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In the social media world, it looks like 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, you may think some of these historical figures are…

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