Dear Internet Fact Checking: I spend a lot of time in a genealogical chat room called whosyourgranny. com. Recently, it carried a post suggesting that the Koch brothers, the right-wing billionaires from Wichita, Kansas, were distantly related to the late Ed Koch, the former Democratic mayor of New York, despite the fact that their names are pronounced differently. It sounds right to me, but someone I work with told me that you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet.
High Flier, Torrance, Calif.
Dear High Flier:
Whoever told you that you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet is a deeply cynical and untrustworthy person. Both the Mayor and the billionaires from Wichita flatly denied any family connection, and flat denials are, of course, the next best thing to an admission.…
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