Social media has been a critical channel for people to get real-time information in mega-events like Hurricane Sandy. The challenge is that with people getting trigger-happy with the retweet and share buttons. It only takes a moment for a phony image or new nugget to spread across people’s social media streams.
There are two big ones today.
The first is a photo of soldiers continuing to guard the Tomb of the Unknown Solider. Touching, except numerous people have pointed out the photo is from September:
The other big fake is this startling, but photoshopped image of the New York skyline:
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ED
Oooh, ooh! Raises hand. That last shot of ominious cloud over NYC. Shouldn’t the evil aliens being descending shortly, only to be taken out by Jeff Goldblum and Will Smith?
Nov 8, 2012