Washington Post social media policy didn’t prevent Mike Wise’s Twitter hoax

Since I criticized the Washington Post’s social media policy last year (before I even imagined returning to the Washington market), I guess I should comment on Mike Wise’s stupid Twitter stunt and the Post’s response.

In a nutshell: Wise knowingly published a false statement about a football player on Twitter, a hoax intended to show how people would pass along unverified information that they read on Twitter. The Post has suspended him for 30 days.

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