Fake Hurricane Photos Cascade Into Social Media
October 30th, 2012 As Hurricane Sandy approached land on Monday, social media users were desperate for the kind of drama that was shown on CNN with Anderson Cooper or FOX News with Shepard Smith. As spoofers launched their hurricane photo schemes, the sharing frenzy ensued. Over ten separate fake images went viral, passed off as current Hurricane Sandy photos. “As of 5:00 p.m. EST, there had...
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The most shocking finding reveals that 99.95% of the companies’ stock prices directly correlated with their Facebook likes that day, or in that period. The following infographics leverages O’Connor’s findings and research performed by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project on political activity on social media networks and the interaction of users due to political material.
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