Journalism is the act of collecting, verifying, analyzing, and presenting information on events, issues, and people in order to serve the public.
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Obviously, Lincoln could not have commented on the internet. If you are referring to the quote about the difficulty in verifying something posted on the internet, attributed to Lincoln, it is a somewhat joking way of making that very point. Just because something is posted on the net does NOT mean it is true.
Verifying if a 1950 one hundred dollar is counterfeit can be done in a number of ways. Initially check for a thread pattern in the paper. US currency has paper with a rag content including visible threads. then check for a watermark. A watermark cannot be xeroxed properly. Finally, the disclosure pen found at retail stores can check the chemical content of the paper to verify authenticity.