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Recently got in a bit of a banter with a friend of mine on Facebook who shared a modified version of Theodore Roosevelt's speech on immigration to sound Canadian and falsely attributed it to Sir. Wilfred Laurier. When I indicated that this quote belonged to Roosevelt and not Laurier, she stated that it didn't matter who said it, she just liked what it said. We had a bit of a back-and-forth on the subject and I left it on me falsely attributing Herman Goering's quote from the Nuremberg Trials to Winston Churchill (not indicating to her who actually said it) to illustrate the fantasy that perverting history doesn't matter. She has not replied as of yet.
From fake Einstein quotes, which seem to be the most rampant, to this sort of garbage. What the heck happened to people fact-checking the information they share? It would seem that in the age of "click-and-share" media that the rigours of fact-checking have gone by the wayside because that extra few seconds of work is either too much, or it if the attribution changed to a less admirable figure, it would have an impact on the elation felt from sharing words ascribed to a revered public figure.
From fake Einstein quotes, which seem to be the most rampant, to this sort of garbage. What the heck happened to people fact-checking the information they share? It would seem that in the age of "click-and-share" media that the rigours of fact-checking have gone by the wayside because that extra few seconds of work is either too much, or it if the attribution changed to a less admirable figure, it would have an impact on the elation felt from sharing words ascribed to a revered public figure.
