A good rule of thumb is that when something sounds unbelievable you should assume that the source is made up until you locate substantial evidence to confirm the claim. Nowadays, video clips are misrepresented or even fabricated altogether. If this particular claim had been spread far at all and a few days had passed, there would be articles online (at non-junk websites) discussing it. I’m not seeing any such articles in this case.
My personal rule is not to mention such “big unverifiable claim” topics until I’m able to verify and educate myself on it. That avoids me feeling silly by being unable to respond to any probing questions about the big claim. It also avoids spreading the idea that the story is accurate. If all I can say is “I saw it in a feed full sourced from publishers that I don’t necessarily trust” and the claim is unbelievably wild that’s my “stop signal”.
I mean, that’s the normal way of processing of claims before the Epstein files. Even Bill Gates turns up and he had to apologize to his co-workers for the things revealed about him. And he seemed like a relatively chill guy to me as well. Everyone is involved. Even the princess of Norway. This is far and wide.
A good rule of thumb is that when something sounds unbelievable you should assume that the source is made up until you locate substantial evidence to confirm the claim. Nowadays, video clips are misrepresented or even fabricated altogether. If this particular claim had been spread far at all and a few days had passed, there would be articles online (at non-junk websites) discussing it. I’m not seeing any such articles in this case.
My personal rule is not to mention such “big unverifiable claim” topics until I’m able to verify and educate myself on it. That avoids me feeling silly by being unable to respond to any probing questions about the big claim. It also avoids spreading the idea that the story is accurate. If all I can say is “I saw it in a feed full sourced from publishers that I don’t necessarily trust” and the claim is unbelievably wild that’s my “stop signal”.
I mean, that’s the normal way of processing of claims before the Epstein files. Even Bill Gates turns up and he had to apologize to his co-workers for the things revealed about him. And he seemed like a relatively chill guy to me as well. Everyone is involved. Even the princess of Norway. This is far and wide.