Last week, One Direction singer Liam Payne died unexpectedly at the age of 31 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. You likely heard about it in fragments, messages popping up on your home screen from lit-up group chats or breaking news push notifications, or after putting together the pieces of contextless tweets like, “This can’t be real” or “I’m literally so shocked right now.” Facts (and misinformation) were hitting us out of order thanks to the non-chronological timelines of social media sites like X, Instagram, and TikTok.