{"id":9388,"date":"2013-01-16T17:44:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T01:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=9388"},"modified":"2019-12-23T15:55:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T23:55:41","slug":"see-something-check-snopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2013\/01\/16\/see-something-check-snopes\/","title":{"rendered":"See Something? Check Snopes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:2924,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.snopes.com\\\/medical\\\/toxins\\\/raturine.asp&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.snopes.com\\\/medical\\\/toxins\\\/raturine.asp&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2925,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/search?q=snopes+can+rat+urine&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;hl=en&amp;client=safari&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:2926,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/search?q=see+something+say+something&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;client=safari&amp;tbo=d&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=Hlb3UITUCIXPigK0kYHoAQ&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&amp;biw=1024&amp;bih=672&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>So here&#8217;s a little contribution I made to the world today, after seeing yet another Facebook friend sharing yet another easily disproven bit of misinformation:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/1358386091.jpg\" title=\"Check Snopes First\" alt=\"If you see something, CHECK SNOPES FIRST.\" align=\"centered\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please: Steal this image. Re-post it. Share it with your friends (you know the ones). Post it as a comment when they post whatever hoax comes around next. Get it out there.<\/p>\n<p>Over and over, I see people&#8211;who in other situations seem to have at least two brain cells to rub together&#8211;sharing and reposting images on Facebook that are absolute junk. In most cases, disproving the information is as simple as googling &#8220;snopes&#8221; plus a couple keywords from the text. For instance, the image of a bunch of soda cans that talks about how someone died after drinking from a can that had been contaminated by rat urine? Yeah, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/medical\/toxins\/raturine.asp\" title=\"Snopes: A Wee Rat Problem\">that&#8217;s false<\/a>, and not only is that link is the top result after searching for &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=snopes+can+rat+urine&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;hl=en&amp;client=safari\" title=\"Google for 'snopes can rat urine'\">snopes can rat urine<\/a>&#8220;, but <em>every other link<\/em> on the Google results page is to a page debunking the information.<\/p>\n<p>This stuff is <em>not<\/em> hard to find. The problem is, even the couple clicks and few words of typing are more work than simply clicking &#8220;share&#8221; on Facebook, and so when people see these things, their brains just seem to disengage. After all, it <em>could<\/em> be true&#8230;right? Well, no, not usually, but it gets shared anyway.<\/p>\n<p>So, in a fit of pique, I created the image above (based off the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=see+something+say+something&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;client=safari&amp;tbo=d&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=Hlb3UITUCIXPigK0kYHoAQ&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CAcQ_AUoAA&amp;biw=1024&amp;bih=672\" title=\"Google Image Search for 'see something say something'\">See Something Say Something<\/a> campaign), and have now posted it publicly to Facebook, Google+, and this blog. It&#8217;s my (sure to be unrealized) hope that this image will get shared and, just perhaps, prompt a few people to actually put some small effort into thinking about what they&#8217;re posting.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, I know. Unlikely. But it&#8217;s worth a shot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s a little contribution I made to the world today, after seeing yet another Facebook friend sharing yet another easily disproven bit of misinformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-9388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}