As of 5 minutes ago nine out of fifteen stories on the front page or digg.com have been reported as inaccurate by diggers. That is sixty percent of all the stories on the front page at the moment. When I logged on I was confronted with so many potentially inaccurate stories I just had to reach for the print screen key and share it with you.

It’s election season, and all but one of the stories is political so that is almost certainly the source of the inaccuracy. What is surprising though, to me at least, is that most of the “inaccurate” stories are about the Republican Sarah Palin. In my experience it is right wing conservatives that spew the most inaccurate information but here we have a conservative that appears to be the victim of exaggerated and inaccurate attacks. This is such a turnaround it makes my head spin.

It might be that my view of conservatives has been poisoned by people like Bill O’Reilly to such an extent that is hard for me to comprehend these sort of attacks happening the other way around. But I also think it a reflection of how desperate the American people (and the world) are for change, and out of desperation some progressive thinkers are lowering their standards to that of Bill O. This sort lowering of standards is a slippery slope. Just imagine if everyone argued like Bill O’Reilly. It would be impossible to express a logical balanced opinion without getting shouted down by some simple minded political bigot.

Whatever the reasons, this is easily the greatest number of inaccurate stories I have seen on digg at one time. I just hope this isn’t a continuing trend :p

Digg Sixty Percent Inaccurate?