SABO: When absurdity goes viral, the real threat is our willingness to believe it - The Stettler Independent

SABO: When absurdity goes viral, the real threat is our willingness to believe it - The Stettler Independent

Every so often in my work, I come across something on social media that I have to follow up on just because of how wild it is. The latest bit of hilarity social media has coughed up is NASA’s “Project Anchor.” Supposed leaked documents from the American space agency use the big lie theory to claim that on Aug. 12 or 13, depending on time zones, the Earth’s gravity will turn off for seven seconds as it passes through a “gravitational distortion f…