THE ARNE DUNCAN RUMOR.
If you don’t spend an unhealthy amount of time on social media you might have missed the breaking news the other day that Lori Lightfoot had put Arne Duncan on her transition team.
The news wasn’t that she planned to do it.
It was a fact.
And that fact – with no sources cited – was repeated and repeated and repeated.
Only it wasn’t true.
“Facebook friends” said that they knew it was true because they were told it was a fact at a CTU House of Delegates meeting. But I don’t know if that even happened.
Sometimes social media can be toxic.
If you live in the regular world of people who don’t spend an unhealthy amount of time scanning Twitter and Facebook, the Arne Duncan story may have gone right by you.
Other things may occupy your life. Like the poor pitching start of the Cubs. Or our CONTINUE READING: The Arne Duncan rumor. – Fred Klonsky
