Social Media Spin

One trou­bling aspect of ‘cit­i­zen jour­nal­ists’ and the rela­tion­ship unknown and untested blog­gers have with respected online news jour­nals is that some­times these blog­gers sub­mit posts which have a detri­men­tal effect on busi­ness. This sit­u­a­tion has been seen over and over again. Last month for instance, a wrongly dated post about United Air­lines caused stock prices to …