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3 Post author: David_Gerard 23 June 2014 07:21AM

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Comment author: sediment 29 June 2014 07:47:10PM *  2 points [-]

tl;dr: can we raise the sanity waterline with clever use of social media?

Like "perpetual motion machine", the conjunction of "raise sanity waterline" and "use of social media" in the same sentence is immediately activating my red flags for "oxymoron; doomed to failure".

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 01 July 2014 02:22:07PM 0 points [-]

For what it's worth, I'm seeing some people getting trained to use Snopes. On the other hand, it wasn't a social media campaign that did it. It was getting repeatedly pointed at Snopes when they posted low-quality links.