5 viral stories about Boston attacks that aren't true - CNN.com - 0 views
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"On days like this, Twitter shows its best & worst: loads of info at huge speed, but often false & sometimes deliberately so," said Mark Blank-Settle, of the BBC College of Journalism, in a post on the site
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The image is, in fact, real. It comes from the Boston Globe and was shared through Getty Images. But the agency's caption merely describes the scene as a man comforting an injured woman at the finish line.
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That didn't stop it from making the rounds in a big way. A somewhat misleading Facebook account pretending to represent actor Will Ferrell (it calls itself a "parody" but has 385,000 likes) shared the post. By Tuesday morning, the picture had more than 448,000 "likes" and had been shared over 92,000 times.
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This article to caught my eyes on how the media can put false and misleading information out, by sometime trying to be the first to report a story in such a high demand field of work. Being the first to report and cover such major stories can be a life changing event. You can make history for breaking news on a major stories are you will make history for the first for breaking false information on a story.
