A man in Maryland got misidentified by twitter users as the perpetrator of a deplorable attack and he published an article about what the experience was like for him. The accusation was retreeted half a million times. This part jumped out at me:
I find this to be a universal truth about humankind - we tend to get more excited about reporting an injustice than about correcting one. I’ve always loved a Mark Twain quote that summarizes this situation nicely:
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
I’ve since learned that, like so many popular quotations, this one is credited to the wrong person:
How ironic that a quote about misinformation is misattributed.