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Thu, 2012-11-01 22:27 — Maeryn Obley

A startling but manufactured image of the giant storm that made the rounds on Twitter and Facebook. Image: A startling but manufactured image of the giant storm that made the rounds on Twitter and Facebook.

nytimes.com - October 31st, 2012 - Jenna Wortham

During Hurricane Sandy’s peak, Twitter was abuzz with activity, as tens of thousands of people turned to the microblogging service for alerts, updates and real-time reports and photographs of the storm.

 Trouble is, not all of it was true.

Deliberate falsehoods, including images showing the Statue of Liberty engulfed in ominous clouds and sharks swimming through waterlogged suburban neighborhoods quickly spread through the service, as did word that power would be shut off for the entire city of New York and that the floor of the New York Stock Exchange had been flooded.

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Sun, 2012-11-04 12:43 — Maeryn Obley

There is no question that we need to start migrating to web 3.0 management and governance systems -- like the Resilience Systems and MPHISE -- with verified crowd-sourcing and intelligent social networks with extensive knowledge management and deep semantic layer.  Twitter and Facebook are great for taking down governments, but relationship-based social networks are far too limited to achieve resilience in severe disasters.
They have their place in the evolution of social media, but they are far too limiting in terms of mission-driven distributed intelligence. 
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