Information Sloppiness

She stole the anecdote from another woman and edited it from a cute and endearing story into “me and my fucked up kid” story. Five million views, 187,000 likes. The woman is thin as a washboard. The story is obviously fake and not even funny in this telling.

People will believe absolutely anything. Instead of growing more cautious with their information intake, they get increasingly sloppy.

3 thoughts on “Information Sloppiness

    1. This is why people go online. To hear that somebody else was called fat because it reduces their inner anxiety about their own weight. One truly despairs.

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