Got burned and not for the first time last night.
Social media blew up with reports that the IRGC had captured our guy. Like a fucking idiot I fell for it and post a rage post.
Little while later reports from some dudes connected with the Special Ops community and a few mouth pieces for the administration (both sides have those) came out saying we had recovered our guy.
This is a tough one for me.
On one hand we have carefully curated info passed onto us from every govt on the planet. To say that info is many times incomplete (at best) is being too kind.
On the other hand we see citizen journalist with a definite political lean (myself included) that either knowingly, meaning they're acting on behalf of their political masters to get the news out that conforms with their beliefs/agenda or unknowingly, meaning they believe a certain thing and will pass along news that agree with their beliefs.
How do you deal with this trickiness?
I think you post what hits, if you find out its not true correct it and then move on. What do you guys think?
My belief is that raw unsanitized news is important. You got a better way then tell me.
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