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I promise you this is a true tale. Only the names have been changed... Many moons ago, when I was very young - and you were even younger... I was working for a Very Large Company. Our team needed some help building an app and a back-end service. We could have built this ourselves - but we were stretched a bit thin with other work. So we found a great technology partner. They'd helped us in the …

What do we do about people who don't get the joke?

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Screenshot from Facebook. The shared story headline is "Jared Kushner Calls Kim Jong-un “Totally Unqualified Person” Who Got Job Only Through Nepotism". There are comments from people who think this is a genuine news story.

If you've been online for any length of time, you'll have come across this phenomenon. A story is shared which is obviously humorous. Inevitably, some people treat it seriously. I remember being a child and reading the satirical magazine "Private Eye" - I was young and couldn't easily differentiate between the news reporting and the humour. That lead to nothing more than internal…