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[–] 4 pts

I went to r/iowa to read the soy take on the Tibbits murder and it was just comment after comment of illegal apologia with the occassional real outrage peppered in there. It was sad. Young people will be fooled by that propaganda.

[–] 2 pts

Young people will be fooled by that propaganda.

You just gotta teach them what many of us learned when the internet was in its fledgling days:

You can't believe anything on the internet

I still take this approach; I never believe any uncorroborated claim, and even with corroboration it has to pass the smell test. And so often "corroboration" is just a bunch of people pointing to the AP or some single claim somewhere.