Find yourself sitting beside a relative who has sent you lots of chain emails?
Here's PolitiFact's annual guide on what to say. Stash it under the green bean casserole (or JELL-O) until you need it.
Find yourself sitting beside a relative who has sent you lots of chain e-mails?
Here's our annual guide on what to say. Stash it under the green bean casserole until you need it.
At Thanksgiving dinner, there's probably a good chance you'll end up sitting beside your uncle.
You love your uncle, but you could do without all those chain e-mails that he forwards to you, the ones that claim the government is forcing you to get rid of your light bulbs, that "Obamacare" is going to put a tax on home sales and that President Barack Obama fits the biblical description of the Antichrist. (Note to uncles: We're not really singling you out. Chain e-mails get forwarded by aunts, grandparents and plenty of other relatives.)
So PolitiFact has put together this handy guide to chain e-mails and other viral messages. Hide it under the green bean casserole and you can pull it out if your uncle brings up the chain e-mails.
Find yourself sitting beside a relative who has sent you lots of chain e-mails? Here's our annual guide on what to say. Stash it under the green bean casserole until you need it.
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Critics harrumph that fact-checking doesn't work because politicians keep lying. But politicians aren't our audience. Voters are.
Critics harrumph that fact-checking doesn't work because politicians keep lying. But politicians aren't our audience. Voters are.
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