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Accountability for Misinformation

Forum|Forum|10 months ago
October 9, 2025
9 replies
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This is directed to the AARP Community Care Group and involves this Community Board and the guidelines to which we are all accountable when posting on this Community Board.

I read most all post that are given here; most are just fine. However, when a person comes here to post a grievance and gives some data point - numbers or how the program works or is being changed - they need to back up this criteria with some link on where they have found the information so that we, the others reading such from them, can check it out for ourselves.

This has to be enforced or this board should just be changed to games and songs because at least they are not spreading misinformation.

From Your Guideline for this board.

Cite your sources

We encourage members to use online resources in their discussions. But please be sure to cite your sources and give credit where it is due. You may link to and summarize cited sources but may not copy entire articles or videos into your post. False and misleading information is also prohibited.

SereneSeagull

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I agree. Interestingly, when posting in the article discussion boards the AI safety net catches the most ridiculous things. Doesn’t happen here like it does there. Try citing sources where something was found, and post might then say “pending approval”, type an acronym and it too could be held for pending or removed. And we’re talking pretty innocuous things.

Type medical jargon or procedure and it could meet the same fate. It’s oddly random and one has to be creative to get their message posted.

It would be good if there were uniformity for sure

GailL1Author

Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐

Then sometimes if they just give a name where they got the info and I try tracing it back using their own words, then I find that the source info is dated back in 2004 or even earlier. So check the date of info - sometimes it will fool you into thinking it is something current but it is far from it.

IT‘S ALWAYS SOMETHING . . . . .. . . . Roseanne Roseannadanna

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CBtoo

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Well on the thread you mentioned above you cited 13 and 16 year old information (based on the dates you used) to back yourself up. I'd suggest to practice what you preach before complaining about it.