The United Airlines Leggings Gate

A United Airlines gate agent told a family of three young girls they couldn't fly with leggings on. A woman tweeted about the incident, and it quickly went viral. Author Ahummet Zemlian writes that social media has 'disincentivized' people from looking out for the facts. He says we are just disincentivised from actually looking at some complicated because, frankly, complication is out the window with Twitter.