If something online makes you instantly furious, check it twice. Outrage spreads faster than accuracy.

Anything built to travel is built to provoke, because anger is the cheapest way to get a thing shared. The posts arriving with the most heat have usually been selected for how furious they make people rather than for being accurate. That flash of rage is doing somebody’s distribution work, and it turns up well before any of your judgement does.

Give yourself a rule: nothing gets shared while you are still angry about it. Wait an hour and look for a second source, ideally one with no reason to tell the story that way. Often the heat has gone out of it by then.