It’s moments like these — as the owner of Twitter/X is spreading conspiracy theories about FEMA during an active response — that make it easy to explain how I went from writing a dissertation about online volunteerism (“voluntweeters”) during disasters to studying online rumors & disinformation.
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Joe Katz
In case you're wondering if these are spreading: I made about 100 contacts by text in North Carolina last night, and five separate people brought up some version of "Biden and Harris gutted FEMA and are blocking recovery efforts"
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The effort is happening, where it can logistically. Go FEMA!