There's another fake quote near the top of the Greatest page. (UPDATE: See replies 3 & 4.)

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This one worded strongly enough that it might be putting Rosanne Cash in some danger, judging by some of the reactions to it that I saw on X earlier today.

Apparently some fool somewhere else online thought it would be cute to create a meme, a mockup of a social media post with her photo, and started posting that fake message online a few days ago. I checked her social media posts on Facebook, Instagram and Threads, and it wasn't posted there. She doesn't have an account on X. But that fake message she supposedly wrote has been copied and quoted by a lot of people on X and those three Meta platforms who couldn't be bothered to check whether it was real.

There's been plenty of time for news outlets to report on the quote, IF it was real. It wasn't, and they didn't fall for it.

No one should have. It takes only a couple of minutes googling her name and unusual keywords from the quote to see if it's been reported as news.

But now it's on DU's Greatest page with over 200 recs.

We really need a system to identify an OP with a quote or story that isn't reliably sourced.

Especially when the fake quote is worded so harshly it might cause a potentially dangerous backlash against someone for something they didn't say. That fake quote is making new enemies for Rosanne Cash.