MistyMy personal request: if you see a headline that makes you feel a strong emotion, you should think about whether it’s actual for at least 20 seconds before boosting or typing out your opinion
Yes I’m subposting several things right now. It turns out plenty of people have retained alarmist Twitter user behaviour over here too
Giflian@misty now I'm wondering if it was me (as a general thing, I do worry about sharing untrue stuff)
@misty I have flubbed a few times, not realizing an article was on a fake news site. I’m better at spotting that now, but it took some mistakes to get there.
For a while I was sharing YouTube movie trailers with friends before realizing most of them were fan-made or scams for clicks (and this was even before consumer genAI tools). I had to block so many YouTube channels…