I shared a political clip before checking it. How should I correct the family chat?
Politics"So you're saying I made it up?" my uncle wrote after I asked where his twenty-second political video came from. The awkward part is that I had already forwarded it to another family chat with "This is awful."
The clip shows an unnamed councillor saying a public service should close. It starts halfway through a sentence. I have found a longer upload, but it still has no clear event date, and I haven't established whether the short version leaves out a qualification. I can't honestly call it either a confirmed quote or a fake.
My uncle thinks asking for the original is a way of defending a politician. My sister wants me to delete my forward and leave it there. That would save an argument, but the people who saw my confident caption wouldn't know why it disappeared.
I'm considering writing, "I shared this before checking the full context. I haven't verified the claim, so please don't rely on my earlier message." Do I put that in both chats now, even if I can't settle what the councillor meant? And how do I acknowledge my own mistake without turning the correction into a public trial of my uncle?
The people and clip are fictional.