The Onion's Hostage Tweets Draw Scrutiny

“Twitter feeds are reporting false information..."

I feel like that needs to be the social default. The only reason this is even remotely an issue is because some people at some point decided that they would trust twitter for critical information.

At this point, I'd only pay to read/watch the NYT, The Guardian, Nat Geo, Al-Jazeera (English) and The Onion. The ability they have to affect the 'real news' is unprecedented and intelligently done.

I guess the Capitol Police find the idea of armed congressmen holding schoolkids hostage pretty plausible these days.

It's all context. If you'd been reading their stream from the beginning, it would have made sense.

In other news: An actor on stage shouted fire in a crowded theater.