As it turned out, Trump simply followed Prime Minister Abe's lead, as the unedited clip revealed — a correction that, again, netted fewer than one hundred social media shares in some cases. Needless to say, in an age of rampant mistrust of the media, journalists must be alive to the reputational harm caused by this sloppy report-first, verify-later style of reporting. The correction — eight hours later — that the direction came from president-elect Trump has clocked just over 3,200 retweets by comparison. Media outlets are under intense pressure to generate as many likes, retweets and other social media interactions as possible. Trump's Law of Social Media Reporting should be extinguished sooner rather than later.

Source: CBC News December 08, 2017 09:56 UTC