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[-] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Or it's just purposely oversimplified to be funny.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

An issue that I often find is that misinformation is often spread under the guise of innocent humor. If information becomes oversimplified to the point of becoming incorrect, and it's shared as such, I think that some people may not internalize that it's incorrect and will take it at face value. I do think that people have a responsibility to be skeptical of what they read, but I think that the people sharing information also have a responsibility to ensure its accuracy to the best of their ability to, at the very least, reduce the burden on those consuming information, and to reduce the impact of the extremes of people that consume and spread information without any thought given to its accuracy.

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