Ten pages are not ten confirmations
Watch on YouTube When we cannot access the original source, our natural impulse is to look for a copy, a screenshot, or someone who claims to have read it. That can serve as a clue, but not as an automatic substitute. Because screenshots can be incomplete, quotations can leave out a crucial sentence, and reposts sometimes
When we cannot access the original source, our natural impulse is to look for a copy, a screenshot, or someone who claims to have read it. That can serve as a clue, but not as an automatic substitute. Because screenshots can be incomplete, quotations can leave out a crucial sentence, and reposts sometimes inherit an error without checking it. This is the phenomenon of repetition. Ten pages can look like ten confirmations, when in fact all ten are repeating the same claim of uncertain origin. Or worse: they cite one another and end up creating an illusion of consensus.
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