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Originally Posted by Madman
300, to 100, to actually only 22 being transported to area hospitals.
Roughly 80 minor injuries were treated on scene and not transported at all.
Thankfully only 1 was a serious injury.
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Yep, that's what we're going to get from now on with social media playing such a big part in early news reporting.
The problem is the lack of filter. I don't know what it is, but as soon as someone posts something on twitter, it becomes relevant. I'm not saying everyone's stupid enough to believe everything on twitter, but people in general are willing to give anything posted on twitter the time of day, which those same people aren't willing to do in other situtations.
If a creepy looking weirdo was sitting in a coffee shop and turned to a table of people and said "I heard over 300 people were injured in that big crash by Leduc". The table of people would say "Wow, that seems high, where'd you hear that?". "Uh I don't know, I just heard it". Then those people would say "Uh yeah, that guys probably full of ****".
But if that same uninformed weirdo turns on his computer and types out that 300 people are injured on twitter, it instantly becomes "part of the discussion". It becomes a figure that is passed around the web, and becomes a figure that now has to be refuted and corrected. But why did it have to be refuted and corrected if it was just random people guessing on the internet? Because that's how powerful social media has become.
Social media is the weirdest thing in that it's become so useful and so useless at the same time, if you know what I mean.