My last job was in a cubicle field where people would email one another even though they were three feet apart. One of the highlights of their day was sending one another shocking email about liberals, conservatives, Americans, politicians, and you name it.
Once I received an email about how Barack Obama was going to change the National Anthem to something more loving. Supposedly, he didn’t like “bombs bursting in air” part so the email claimed that he vowed to change it once he became president. At the time I was actually a Ron Paul man, so I didn’t care about Obama or these fake conservatives pushing some ridiculous agenda. What bothered me is how easily people accepted these lies without questioning them. No critical thinking among engineers and top level managers.. sad, really. So sent an email back with a link to snopes and factcheck.org and a short message:
Check you facts.
Now for some reason, management scolded everyone for sending ANY kind of political email on the network (even though they’d been sending emails like that for years).
I got tired of the constant urban legends, scams and lies being sent out. I would check ever thing they sent out. Here are some sites that I used:
Google.com (the best)
factcheck.org
snopes.com
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