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by matthewmacleod 4441 days ago
It does suck, and I can't imagine anybody wants to be audited, and there can be mistakes. That's the cost of any government bureaucracy, I'd wager.

But I'm not clear why it's unsettling to use social networking posts—that is, public broadcast publishing by individuals—as a source of information. It's as legitimate as any other.