#7528: - Think Before You Share My point is straightforward but urgent: This is the front line against viciousness and madness and anti-science and anti-reason. When people post slanderous, malevolent lies, if you forward them without censure, then you are abetting slanderous, malevolent lies. Forget that line on so many people’s Twitter page about retweets not constituting endorsement. Sorry, wrong. If you share something on any social medium, you’re saying, overtly, that you approve of it being shared. That you think it’s worth people’s time. That its point is either valid or worthy of consideration.

 I couldn't have said it better. Thank you.

Many times, the people sharing 'complot' theories ignore that they are flaming the nonsense. There will always be one or two (or more) people in the audience who will believe the rumors as true and hel spreading it, resulting in mass hysteria.

#7541: - Re: Think Before You Share 

 You're welcome.

This article merely underlines what I said before: always ask yourself "Is this really true?".

And as the article says, if you're not entirely sure that what you are spreading is really true, you may well be spreading a vicious and damaging lie. Unintentionally, perhaps, but nonetheless.