I can barely fault people or draw a line at this point. Just look at the “theonion” community here on Lemmy.
If it wasn’t from The Onion and was instead from literally any other satire publication, 90% of the comments and votes are treating it like it’s an actual article. It’s embarrassing.
The problem isn’t getting things wrong, it’s opening your mouth and cementing that fact before you’ve done the bare minimum of looking at where the thing you’re commenting on came from.
I can barely fault people or draw a line at this point. Just look at the “theonion” community here on Lemmy.
If it wasn’t from The Onion and was instead from literally any other satire publication, 90% of the comments and votes are treating it like it’s an actual article. It’s embarrassing.
The problem isn’t getting things wrong, it’s opening your mouth and cementing that fact before you’ve done the bare minimum of looking at where the thing you’re commenting on came from.