A reminder to all DUers reposting content from social media: Check your sources

[EarlG]

32. To be clear, and this is also addressed to one of the posts above,

this is not about truth or lies or fact checking. That is a separate issue which I've addressed many times before. (In a nutshell, this is the Internet, and people should always be cautious about what they read and share, and the best way to counter factually incorrect information on DU is to do so publicly by responding to that information.)

In this case, however, I'm specifically talking about folks bringing content to DU from sources which are clearly inappropriate -- social media influencers who typically traffic in highly bigoted content, but from time to time happen to post something that DUers are in agreement with (for example, criticizing Trump), which then gets reposted on DU. Those influencers should not be platformed on DU.