We have all now had the experience. A clip circulates online. The framing is plausible. It confirms what many people already suspect. Within hours, thousands of people are reacting to something they have not fully seen, from someone they have not fully heard, in a context they do not know. Then, much later, comes the qualification, the missing context, the longer recording, the correction that travels only a fraction as far as the original outrage. As Swift put it, “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.”