When The Associated Press appeared to tweet Tuesday that there were two explosions in the White House, we were right to believe the news, even though it turns out that the AP Twitter account had been hacked. There were no explosions; the tweet was false. But believing the AP is not where we went wrong. Our occasional believing false reports should awaken us to the dangers of literalism.
via CNN.com - Top Stories http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/25/opinion/weinberger-twitter/index.html?eref=edition
via CNN.com - Top Stories http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/25/opinion/weinberger-twitter/index.html?eref=edition
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