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I'm "that guy" on Facebook that will actually bother to fact check random things that come across my feed. (Enter your PIN number backwards at an ATM to alert police, anyone?)
This has never been done out of spite.
One time, I re-posted a blurb about the death of Rowan Atkinson (without checking).
One of my friends replied with a link to an article explaining that Mr Atkinson was in fact, very much dead and was simply the subject of (yet another) celebrity death rumor (as Mr Atkinson is English, perhaps that should be "rumour").
As to the intentions of the person who corrected me, I simply do not know.
Perhaps he wanted to embarrass me, perhaps he cared enough to want to see me not embarrass myself further.
However, I chose to own the correction, and was grateful for the reminder to be more careful.
I have been far more annoyed/upset in finding out that I had believed (and disseminated) false information than I have ever been by public or private corrections.
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Glenn
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