The Twitter Rumor Mill Does It Again
From the death of Eddie Murphy to Aliens being found for real this time, Twitter has proven itself time and again to be the best possible resource for spreading unfounded rumors if you really want them to go viral. Now its power has really come into its own. With a quick tweet about the death of Syria’s president the cost of oil was actually driven upward at a rapid pace. The tweet, which supposedly came from a Russian official, was [...]