Fake News Means Nothing Is Sacred

Especially not life, nor our mental health.

My Facebook feed is increasingly stressing me out, and I don’t think I’m alone in the sentiment. Despite the recent emotionally moving commercials from the social media giant, my feed is still ninety-five percent ads or commercialized posts with only five percent of my actual friends and family displayed.

Messenger may be convenient, but Facebook is now officially the worst way to keep in touch. Mostly because it can create a false sense of connection. But also, fake news.

Some days, just scrolling through my newsfeed makes me feel creepy crawly from all of the misinformation being liked and shared.

(FYI--our collective definition of the word article has seriously gone downhill.)

Right away, I’ve got concerns. Namely that the sources they’re using to support their claims don’t even support those claims at all. But who’s actually going to check out all of those backlinks, right? Um... *raises hand* me.

Now I’m not any expert in “how to spot fake news.” I’m not a genius. I do, however, consider myself to be reasonably intelligent. So I didn’t even need to head over to Snopes to confirm my suspicions that this Neon Nettle story was fake... I only had to read the story.

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