Before deepfakes and alternative facts, the online world was already telling us fibs. In our series Lies the Internet Told Me, we call ’em all out.
If you and the version of yourself that you present to the world online went for a drink together, would you even know each other?
Let’s be honest: In this vast anonymizing realm we call the internet, we all lie a little. Not just on the small stuff, though there is a lot of that; we also tell more intangible lies about the biggest thing we have to talk about, our identity. We smooth over nuance to fit ourselves into checkboxes. We adhere to our “personal brand,” which doesn’t always reflect our truths. On Facebook we tell many lies of omission, often without realizing. Read more…
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