Watch out for Bogus 2016 Presidential Campaign Internet Facts!
Recently, a 'news article' was emailed to me from a well intentioned reader as another example of a travesty happening around the world. So before I start to resend and spread any story myself, I always check out the facts. On occasion, I have slipped up in not checking and every time, every time, get bitten in the ass, and it's embarrassing. Have you ever thought about who gets hung out to dry?
Since the raw email article came to me without any credits for the editorial content or authorship noted, the pirated material took the name recognition away for those creative efforts. So have the creators and brains behind this content lost their identity and true intentions to possibly humorously entertain and not alarm people with misrepresentation of their clever imaginations?
It's important to note that when you go to one fact checking 'dot com or dot org' site, it is wise to check another site too. And, it never hurts for a quick "Google" of the subject that may bring up contrasting opinions and facts too.
So, not only are the originators of the materials misrepresented but the readers of the misinformation are doing a disservice by disseminating wrong ideas held out as fact. It's no wonder that the World Wide Web, or in Chinese: wàn wéi wǎng (万维网), on the Internet has not made all the readers in the blogosphere react as 'flash-mob' take-overs in stores, malls or even revolutions at the drop of a hat. Let's be honest here, how many of you have a friend who sends tons of '--Forwarded messages'--? It makes one wonder why they don't throw them into their trash cans to save others from reading them.
Remember that next time when you send a "'--Forwarded message--", please check out the information source and facts before emailing it out. You are putting your good name on something that now carries your own honest word that it’s the truth; it's in a currency that's as good as gold. That's what computer hackers, malicious malware software developers rely upon to carry their insidious virus infections from one computer to another.
Other computer hacks just get their jollies off knowing their absurd and hurtful stories can damage someone else's reputation; it's the 'reality show' effects for real. Then other emails are just plain stupid for a range of reasons; but mostly just dumb, dumber and dumbest.
So is your "forwarded" email a hoax and its source is a satire or nothing on this quoted website should be taken seriously or is it really factually based? Some emails even have a verification source disclaimer on the page in the site which implies that it has been checked out and that in itself may be also questionable too.