The news is slow. All news hits Twitter, Facebook, and other social media websites before any of the news companies report acknowledgement of it. The raid on Osama Bin Laden's compound that led to his death was reported on twitter as it was happening. The raid happened around 3 pm our time, and most news companies weren't reporting it until 11 pm. Clay Shirky, the author of "Here Comes Everybody," mentioned that the internet allowed for a change to be made, in the past there has been the idea of filter, then publish, now it's turned into publish, then filter.
It's super easy to publish now and because it's free anyone can publish anything they want. People are everywhere and they can report news far more quickly than any professional. Everything gets published now rather than what just the news people want to be published. Twitter and Facebook cover everything that all news agencies cover and there is the problem of over-crowding. Everyone paying attention to Twitter or Facebook can filter the news to decide for themselves what is important, however, they have to search through a larger amount of data before they find what they are looking for. Another problem is that there are those who use this ability to freely publish anything to their advantage and try to sabotage others. Wikipedia allows for anyone to publish any type of facts they want. Luckily there are more people out there trying to do good, and they quickly squash those looking for personal short-term gain by removing or adding to those posts for the well-being of society.
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