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LeonardCohen  ·  3809 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Little Girl Getting Kicked Out of KFC Was Reportedly a Huge Hoax

We as a society must be more careful about spreading unsubstantiated allegations on social media. On the internet one must have more skepticism than one has in face-to-face interactions. Here, it was a corporation that was dragged through the mud, but so often it is an individual who is at the center of the internet’s misdirected outrage. I feel sorry for the three-year old girl. These hoaxes will continue so long as people continue to hit "share" and donate based off of an emotional story that they assume others fact-checked. People cannot be trusted behind a veil of anonymity like they can be face-to-face. It's much, much easier to steal from anonymous strangers than it is to someone's neighbor, so there are many more would-be internet scam artists than in real life.