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We are used to seeing discussions on social networks about problematic authors, either because of their policies, behaviors or writings. But I'd like to know that other side of the spectrum: those writers or literary pieces that have been objects of outrage, due to misunderstandings, unreliable media or a lack of interest in serious and thorough research.
They can be both classic and contemporary writers, and I would like to know your point of view on the possible origin of these unjustified controversies, as well as the role that media malpractices played in the whole affair.
Example: L. Frank Baum and his alleged "Pro-Genocide" editorials, being that hardly anyone read the editorials in question, or know that they are taken from a satirical newspaper, or that they literally describe the natives as "proud people", refer to the massacres as "wronged", and end with:
"An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that 'when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre"
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