I read that on the Internet

I once met a man who claimed that the World Trade Center fell because the basement was bombed, not because jets crashed into it. His source: he read it on the Internet.

It drives me crazy whenever I hear about something that was “read on the Internet”. It’s much worse than having been “seen on TV”. No, it’s more akin to “read on a piece of paper”. Was that paper a newspaper or a comic book? Was the site CNN.com or RINF.com?

I am grateful to Alan Lustiger for showing how the Internet can tell us that Hiroshima and Nagasaki were never bombed.

The truth is out there.

Unfortunately, it’s vastly outnumbered by lies and deception occupying the same medium.

Posted by Jeremy on November 9, 2005 1 Comment.

One Comment

  1. Alan Lustiger replied:

    When I wrote that, the Web didn’t exist. The WWW just made it easier to disseminate lies, but people with motivation can do it all by themselves.

    Of course, if it wasn’t for the Internet you wouldn’t have read my posting from so long ago!

    September 28th, 2006 at 1:46 pm. Permalink.

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