I was in my apartment scrolling through JDate when Shalzed called.

“I just saw that Israel is dropping bombs disguised as toys to kill children,” he said in an angry voice as soon as I answered.

I clicked my tongue. “Where did you see that?” I asked. “That can’t be true.”

“On Facebook.” He sent me a link to the post. It had a grainy picture of what seemed like a small soccer ball.

“What makes you think that’s a bomb?” I asked Shalzed. “Maybe it really is just a ball.”

“Well it says. . .” he began. “Hold on, I want to find out more.”

I switched back to JDate while I listened to the sound of Shalzed clicking on a computer. After a few minutes he said, “You’re right. Unexploded cluster munitions are round or oval-shaped, so it’s possible a child may pick one up thinking it’s a ball. But there is no evidence that Israel is intentionally trying to make them look like toys.”

“Of course not,” I told him.

“So why is someone allowed to post that on Facebook?” he asked. “Millions of people could come to believe something that’s not true.”

I sighed. “And who is going to decide what’s true and what’s not?”

“But this is obviously a lie, I don’t see what’s so hard.”

The profile of an out of shape woman in her late 30s appeared next on JDate. She wrote in her profile that she works out 5 times a week and is hoping to run in the Boston Marathon. Dating sites would benefit from truth checkers, too.