Torrential rains. Massive flooding. Millions in trouble. And billions in damage. When Hurricane Harvey hit Houston, chaos followed. The hurricane was the first natural disaster of this scale to strike the U.S. in the social media era, making this source a valuable data stream for real-time updates throughout the storm.
According to research that examined false tweets from Hurricane Sandy and the Boston Marathon bombing, 86 to 91 percent of active Twitter users spread misinformation, and that nearly as many did nothing to correct it.
Two-thirds (67%) of Americans report that they get at least some of their news on social media – with two-in-ten doing so often, according to a new survey from Pew Research Center.
According to the Adobe Consumer Email Survey Report 2017, e-mail is the preferred method of communication at work, with about 36 percent of respondents using it.
An overwhelming majority of job recruiters are turning to the internet as a means of ensuring that potential job candidates are a good fit for their companies.
