Verification of information gathered through social media is one of the most pressing matters in journalism today.
Josh Stearns has done the most comprehensive job I have seen of compiling links to tips, blog posts, examples and case studies relating to social-media verification. This will be my reading list for the next few weeks, so I thought I’d share it.
(Thanks to Josh for the shoutout and for the link to my tips on verifying information from tweets.)
So helpful! Thanks for sharing these resources.
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