As with Hurricane Sandy, the Boston Marathon bombings, and countless other major stories, news of todays shooting at the Los Angeles International Airport was sometimes muddled with misinformation. A hoax tweet led The Globe and Mail to report that outspoken ex-NSA head Michael Hayden had been shot and killed by a radical Christian group, and an errant LA Times story spread news that the shooter had been a TSA employee, and that he had been shot dead — both claims that were later refuted. But while its a truism that the world of fast-paced Twitter sound bites have created a powerful but dangerous broadcasting tool, todays games of telephone raise a fairly simple question: how do you organize a coherent story from small, nebulous, or outright incorrect bursts of information? NBC put out a six-word breaking story, and an audience spread it
Broken news: struggling to find facts in the Twitter maelstrom
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2013
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