Social Media: Trading Off Accuracy for Immediacy

Jennifer Leggio in Znet:

Social media is providing the ability to report and take in unfiltered
news in a more direct way than ever before possible and we’re doing it
on a mass scale. It’s no longer just a toy for early adopters and
Internet nerds; it’s taking its place as an influencer far beyond
technology. There is, however, a downside: there’s very little way to
know what is true and what is rumor. As fellow ZDNet-er Michael Krigsman said to me the night, “we’re trading off potential accuracy for immediacy.

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