Salinger syndrome
Slang for the tendency to believe everything you read on the Internet. Coined soon after former presidential press secretary Pierre Salinger came forward with information he retrieved from the Internet purporting that TWA Flight 800 was downed by a U.S. Navy missile.
See also : DBEYR
NetLingo Classification: Online Jargon
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