what is the power of social media?

[Nargas J]

What changes social media made in todays world?

[SCOPE!]

The power of social media is huge one of the instances I can think of is that news gets around a lot faster and can be more accurate as a result.

[Ferret Guy]

The big thing to remember about social media is that the information isn’t necessarily coming from an official or knowledgeable source. Someone, for instance, could post seeing a big fire and it could turn out to be just a practice burn. Or someone could say they heard there was a crash and someone must have been killed because there were ambulances everywhere when it could turn out to be just minor injuries. Or someone could speculate, wrongly, that so-and-so must have been in the crash. Or that it must have happened because of this (insert theory here).