> I can't count the number of times my partner tells me when I come home "have you heard, there is this horribly stupid law that is coming into effect next mont

> I can't count the number of times my partner tells me when I come home "have you heard, there is this horribly stupid law that is coming into effect next month". Then I check, and it's not a law, but a proposal, it hasn't been even accepted to be discussed yet and the details are completely different too. It's certainly not the only source of error, but I find that the answer to my first question ("What, where did you read about that?") is almost always "Facebook". It's become a running joke in my household. It turns out though that some people read news as entertainment, and don't really care if it's particularly true. This is probably fine, but it breaks down when the evoked response is outrage instead of a laugh.