Recent stories. There have been a couple of stories posted recently, particularly in social media, that were not reported by me or WBTV. That's because they are complete fiction. And I mean the kind of stuff written by a gnome and delivered on a unicorn to the Land of Oz. The job of a reporter is to seek truth, even if it isn't particularly pretty. Something may sound good, salacious, or interesting, but it may be false, and that's happened a couple of times lately. I don't need to be any more specific. I just need to say that before you share something you see on social media, do a little checking of your own. Look for attribution, sources, specific details, dates, times, etc. My friend Elizabeth Cook at the Salisbury Post calls it "the smell test." As good as social media is, it is also the foremost messenger of malarkey that has ever been invented. As Abraham Lincoln was found of saying "don't trust everything you see on the internet."
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Also perhaps an age limit should be implemented. 
