https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/04/10/in-egypt-how-free-is-free/ Treating newsgathering as an engineering problem... since 2012! Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:37:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2 https://partnews.mit.edu/2013/04/10/in-egypt-how-free-is-free/#comment-9618 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:37:59 +0000 http://partnews.brownbag.me/?p=2893#comment-9618 Nice summary of the back and forth social media battles here. Documenting the conversations, especially with deleted tweets and many speakers, seems like a much bigger challenge than just curating tweets from a given hashtag or real-world event. Do you think there’s a need for a place to share screenshots and other evidence of later-deleted social media posts? Like a Politiwhoops for the rest of the world?

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