- jim Young 20251002 (W: 785) “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell There are still too many people spreading too much garbage on Facebook and still too little that Facebook is doing about it. People are using false and misleading information to spread hate, racism and misinformation on social media. What’s social about that? Some of those people just don’t care and some of those people are just too ignorant to bother checking to see if what they are spreading is even true. The biggest excuse I get for that is, “I don’t know how to fact-check,” or “Who has time to fact-check?” If you can learn how to spread ignorance and lies on Facebook you can learn how to fact-check. If you don’t have time to fact-check, how dare you take the time to spread rumours just because you like what it says? Stop pretending to be part of the news media that you are always blaming for doing exactly what YOU are doing. There’s an old saying, “If you don’t...