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Viral Tweets Are Helping Some People Find Help in Houston. Social Media Can Do Much Better.

Slate
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August 27, 2017

Kim Bui, a Los Angeles–based editor with NowThis, an outlet that produces videos on trending topics and distributes them on social media, has been trying to consolidate online relief-organizing efforts and spread accurate information since Harvey’s downfall. She says people are still tweeting her a call for help from a woman with a newborn, even though Bui knows the woman has already tweeted that she’s been rescued. “It’s really easy right now for someone to pull a photo or take a screenshot of twitter and send it as something that’s new,” she told me over the phone. “

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