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[purplecat]

deborah | Information literacy: No, Trump did not craft White House policy that "women dress like women"

I said in my last link roundup that I was finding it very difficult to judge which of Trump's actions were genuinely exceptional and worrying and which were business as normal for a Republication President. This kind of thing is part of the problem. There are far too many people in my filter bubble that share stuff like this without due diligence even while complaining about fake news in almost the same breath.

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Did Neil Gorsuch Found a High School 'Fascism Forever' Club? : snopes.com

No.

More of the same.

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Yes, I know the Trump administration are telling mind-boggling whoppers, but where I tend to hang out on the Internet those get shredded in minutes while this kind of stuff slips through.

Comments

[heliopausa]

Thank you very much for that link to deborah's post. Amen. amen, amen, to the importance of being really really sure that what we pas on (or act on) is the truth. Outrage, in itself, can be seductive, and very dangerous.

[purplecat]

TBH, I find the outrage a little exhausting. A bit more focus would be a good thing for me, I think.