@tchambers Sorry, but Twitter was *never* a place to track breaking international news, even in the days when the Twitter C-Suite and the Obama State Department had each other on speed dial.
It was *always* a struggle for journalists to fact-check tweets. It may be worse now but it was never acceptable.
@AlgoCompSynth @tchambers Agreed. At a minimum, Twitter should have been awesome for hyper local stories. E.g. there’s local flooding, which roads are blocked.
It could never do as good a job of that kind of news as actual local reporters or government emergency services.
It wasn’t even very good at telling you the injury status of a backup on your favorite sports team.
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