Smart people say that in today’s world, it’s crucial to verify all facts (there are even special fact-checking projects for this). The ongoing Olympics in Paris has already shown how important this advice is, as a huge number of stories have spread across social networks, leading to both condemnation and praise. But if you dig deeper, things are not quite as they seem. To illustrate this, I decided to break down three well-known “fakes,” as we’ll call them.
The first of these was so convincing that even I, succumbing to the general hysteria, immediately jumped to condemnation without checking whether what was being said was true. For that, I apologize—I was wrong.
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