noting a trend on Facebook (and likely on other social media sites) - a ton of posts to random groups (with serious sounding names but unclear who runs them or why) with rehashed versions of memes from years ago which my friends now seem apt to reshare/post as if they are new(ish) stories. And in many cases they seem to be lightly edited from the original versions and the sources of the original meme are almost always obscured or not cited at all. Often paired with AI generated images
give yourself the time to read it. It isn't a few minute read. It is a lengthy, long article (1000's of words), to read the whole thing takes time. It isn't easily summarized in a few short sentences (though I keep seeing that more often than a link to the original article)
The comments on such social media posts are even more obnoxious (for example doubting that he used his $3.5M (in 2014) violin - when the article is very very clear that he did and why.
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