Our relatively brief national nightmare of the new Transformers movie being three hours long is over.
But the ease with which this #fakenews was circulated still gives me pause.
Information formally presented by Google — not even via a web site found through a search, but by the engine itself — ought to be trustworthy, and the source of this misinformation still hasn’t been identified.
It’s a small but curious story, yielding little more than a detail in terms of intel on Michael Bay’s latest film, but more telling with regards to how information is generated and spread online today.