'To Bless All Mankind' June 18, 2018 Issue

Don’t take the (click)bait

Tessa Parmenter

Adapted from an article published in The Christian Science Monitor, March 16, 2018.

“You didn’t hear? It’s all over the news!” a friend said to me.

I hadn’t. I found this disconcerting, so I Googled it. After finding the shocking news, I had to ask: Why wasn’t it being reported in other publications I read?

I soon learned the story had been sensationalized to the point of fabrication. In other words, it was fake news. I told my friend, but I felt upset and disturbed. This experience underscored deeper issues our world has been roiled by: questions of trust and truth.

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