All it takes is a single doctored photo/video of someone being "beat up by the police" and suddenly you have riots, and all other kind of nonsense before more details come out.
People take at face value what there eyes see they no longer care about the facts. In fact unless you where there and witness something yourself its almost greatened you are just going along with someone's version of what the facts are. Even then witness due to being scared or other factors don't even know what happened sometimes.
People just feel this need they have to be the victim or someone they know is the victim. I'd say even if you did find the truth its impact in many cases is null and void. People just want go from one thing to the next without investing in the time to follow up on things.
Off topic
Not sure how your folders/bookmarks are going but If you ever use discord you should look into GINAbot I gave it a try the other day and I’m loving it so far it’s a very nice digital assistant.
Some of its settings: mentions, votes, comments, and new posts by author (I’ve not tired last one yet.) It seems like it might be the rather easy solution many of us wanted so we don’t have to be so concerned about feed spam.
It’s also free and it just messages you in discord whenever an event you pick has happened. Let me know if you want a link that explains it better than I can.
I saw mention of GINAbot a couple of times in posts this past week, but haven't really looked into it.
One of the mentions that looked appealing is the instant notification if you get a mention somewhere and various other interactions.
I mostly use @penguinpablo's SteemBlockExplorer-- it effectively streams everything that happens, but it's not much in the way of notifications.