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It was about corn syrup! – It’s evil corn again: On Saturday, August 15 Whitley Strieber posted an article tohis Facebook account from the Washington Post about a study that showed that high fructose corn syrup contains mercury.

Facebook blockedaccess to the Washington Post article, claiming that it wasabusive. Whitley’s post asked the question: “Could this be why we Americans seem so easy to fool? Have we been dumbed down by this?” This was followed by the linkto the article that offended Facebook.
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…will they come back to haunt you? – Spyware is sneaking onto our computers in nefarious ways. How can we protect ourselves from this sort of thing in the future?

The situation is getting serious: College Facebook posts or pictures can resurface during a job interview. A lost cell phone can expose personal photos or text messages. A legal investigation can subpoena the entire contents of a home or work computer, uncovering incriminating, inconvenient or just embarrassing details from the past.
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Right now, people are using BOTH – We pride ourselves on presenting only REAL news (which is why we have a link identifying our source at the end of every story), but not all websites are that careful. Many of them deal in speculation and even titillation for its own sake. But political blogs have become an important source for people who want to know what’s really going on (perhaps because we’ve heard so many lies in the past few years?)
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We’ve talked about Twitter morality and how it’s easier to be nasty using email than to confront people face to face. Scientists have found that it’s easier for people to lie on the internet too.
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