Almost everyone has friends or family who forward urban legends or political tall tales to their entire contacts lists — and many exasperated recipients have considered closing whole e-mail accounts to stop the flow of that frequently annoying communication.
If you feel moved to action, here’s a way to combat inflations, distortions, and untruths — responsibly — within your personal network (or for a broader audience): research those claims and send the facts back to your bad-news correspondents.
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