Ebola In The USA: Don't Trust What You Read On Twitter

Tuesday, October 21, 2014 - 17:40 in Health & Medicine

Think twice before you over-react. Image: Jim Bourg/ReutersBy Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia Whatever you do, don’t turn to Twitter for news about Ebola. The volume and tone of tweets and retweets about the disease will make you wish you were watching the zombie apocalypse of The Walking Dead instead. It is much less scary. read more

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