On the upside, no fake news is currently being shared on Facebook. Can't think of a downside.

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Viral Video Vilifies Foul-ball Fan

A recent video that shows a kid in the bleachers bobbling a foul ball, and a man picking up the ball and presenting it to the woman next to him, doesn’t show what it seems to show. Julian Green of the Cubs said in a statement, “Unfortunately, a video that was quickly posted and unverified…

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A screen shot from ThoughtCagalog.com, showing that an article has been split into 40 separate chunks.

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Closeup of a person's hand pulling a book off of a shelf.

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On this date in 1999 I first added a date to the list of web links I had been curating. (The image has long since broken.)

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