On the heels of a public uproar regarding the sanctity of the internet, there is growing evidence that  it’s a good idea to do your own fact checking and think through things that are posted by your friends on Facebook or circulated by groups with an agenda.

Subject at hand: a graphic chart that supposedly shows President Obama has had little impact on the national debt, especially when compared to his Republican predecessors.

Not quite. And now for the rest of the story from a Washington Post blogger.