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Music Man

(1,184 posts)
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 01:36 AM Oct 2018

We need some kind of fact checking game show. I've lost the fun of refuting bullshit.

Tonight, two different Facebook friends posted things I knew were going to be on Snopes. One implied gun violence was up in Australia following their gun buyback program, and another was a fake list of Saul Alinsky's rules for revolution that Obama and Hillary Clinton have followed. I hadn't even finished my queries when loads of sourced articles came up refuting the very posts they'd shared.

It's just too freaking easy anymore. I don't feel any challenge.

What I need is an obstacle course or a time limit. Or someone to bury fake news stories in a minefield. Could be a Japanese-style game show that shoots me out into the ocean if I refute a social media post but use a logical fallacy of my own.

Bless us all...

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We need some kind of fact checking game show. I've lost the fun of refuting bullshit. (Original Post) Music Man Oct 2018 OP
Or you could find a lot of articles on Snopes and post them preemptively on FB ProudLib72 Oct 2018 #1
Pming you mahina Oct 2018 #2

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
1. Or you could find a lot of articles on Snopes and post them preemptively on FB
Sat Oct 20, 2018, 01:43 AM
Oct 2018

Just remember to be best when it comes to cyber bullies!

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