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Computing | by Samuel Axon | Tue Jun 30, 2009 4:55PM | 1 comment

Mainstream news outlet CNN cited a Twitter user as "one source" in an article about the situation in Iran, raising some questions about what constitutes a valid source for a journalistic publication. It's difficult for a news network to verify the identity of a Twitter user, or to confirm whether or not his or her tweets are factual.

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external link Gawker - Twitter-Addled CNN Refers to Tweets… [gawker.com]
external link Techmeme: Twitter-Addled CNN Refers to Tweets… [techmeme.com]
external link Soup - How your CNN news sausage gets made.… [soupsoup.tumblr.com]
external link A journalistic conundrum: When does Twitter… [features.csmonitor.com]
external link Violence flares again in Tehran - CNN.com [edition.cnn.com]

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Anonymous (11:13 AM on Wed Jul 1, 2009)

This is the same with any other news source...how can they know if you or I would be telling the truth....people lie and its sad...but thats the gray part of life....its just not black and white.

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