The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

Have a crazy uncle or a Facebook friend you knew from high school, whose friend invite you're regretting accepting, that isn't coy about sending you political chain emails? Sure, we could just ignore these posts and emails, delete them, and pretend we never received them, but then unfortunately, other people will read and believe them, and forward the messages onto several other potentially gullible individuals. I'm rather obsessive about fact-checking as it is, but especially when it comes to these chain emails, which I've come to learn are typically false to one extent or another. It's gotten to the point where I'm almost 100% accurate on whether or not such an email is at least partially false when reading through it one time. There are times it simply amazes me that anyone could believe some of them. However, since it seems there are plenty of such individuals out there, I thought I'd provide a few pointers on how to spot a false political chain email. ...