Re:How big was the Tonga eruption?
by jameshart on Monday January 24, 2022 @04:25PM
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Very gratified they didn’t just post these as rendered gifs.
Imagine the social media scare you could generate in a year or so after everyone has forgotten about this eruption by sharing a graphics.reuters.com URL for one of these animations that appears to show a satellite image sequence of a massive mushroom cloud obliterating the Korean Peninsula or the Sinai with a breathless ‘LOOK WHAT REUTERS JUST REPORTED!!!’ caption.
It’s really important for reputable sources posting images to think about the fake news potential of them getting shared out of context.
Imagine the social media scare you could generate in a year or so after everyone has forgotten about this eruption by sharing a graphics.reuters.com URL for one of these animations that appears to show a satellite image sequence of a massive mushroom cloud obliterating the Korean Peninsula or the Sinai with a breathless ‘LOOK WHAT REUTERS JUST REPORTED!!!’ caption.
It’s really important for reputable sources posting images to think about the fake news potential of them getting shared out of context.