In the Spotlight: Exposing the Lies

Welcome to In the Spotlight, a semi-regular feature of this blog, where I highlight one or more of the links on my personal Web site, www.HansMeyer.net.

Yesterday I posted the article, The Right-Wing Smear Forward, which is the motivation for today's In the Spotlight.

I'll be highlighting two sites, on my Information links page, dedicated to either confirming or exposing as lies the seemingly unlimited amount of urban legends and gossip found on Web sites and (even more so) in chain mail e-mail messages* we all receive.

The first site is Snopes (also known as Urban Legends):

The other site is Break the Chain, which specifically targets the chain mail messages* we all receive:

* - I like to refer to some of these chain mail messages as a poor person's computer virus. Instead of spreading themselves automatically they use the recipients of the message to do the spreading for them.

You can spot them easily: They're the ones which have a line reading: Forward this to everyone you know, or Forward this to everyone in your address book. If you see that in an e-mail message check with Snopes or Break the Chain. Chances are it is a fake message.

As an added bonus I am including, from my Humor links page, My Right-Wing Dad, a collection of right-wing'ed forwards:


You'll find quite a collection of right wing nut chain e-mail messages, which some people, believe it or not, actually take as the truth!

(go to www.HansMeyer.net/Links, then click on Information or Humor).

Click here for this and previous In The Spotlight posts.

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