solitics:

kenyatta:

The amount of misinformation on the #paris tags on tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram is incredible if not unexpected.

The Eiffel Tower didn’t go dark in honor of the dead. They shut the lights off every night.

Thousands of people did not go out into the streets holding up a lighted sign reading “NOT AFRAID.” That was from the Charile Hebdo March.

There was a fire at a refugee camp in Calais but it was not an anti-refugee action. Eyewitnesses report it as small inconclusive.

There are hundreds and sometimes thousands of instances of each of these posts on every platform that I’ve searched.

Instead of checking to see what is actually happening, they’re reposting what they expect or maybe want to see.

wow