Thanks for posting this, Carl. An excellent illustration of why there are (and should be) professional journalists, reporters, researchers, and news organisations. Imagine the consequences if many people got their news from airhead celebrities on social media? Oh....wait...that's right...no need to imagine.
Wise council, Keith!
"Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it," Jonathan Swift wrote in The Examiner in 1710.
That quote has grown overs the years to be popularly attributed to a Winston Churchill version. "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on", except that there's no record of Churchill ever saying that. An even earlier was used by Mark Twain gave him credit for "A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots.". Even though the words have changed over the years with various users, whichever version you like, the point remains undeniable today.
