Iran Protests Play Out Online

I suppose a lot, just as media is on a whole. You have publications like the Economist, New Yorker and the New York Times, and you have tabloids and a host of other sensationalist titles. Twitter can be a bit like that. Twitter is more like the quotes you find in a news story. You judge its credibility in part by the context, the publication, the reporter. True, anonymous sources are not as credible. And all of us, traditional media or not, have had to resort to "anonymous sources" in our publication. To make matters worse, there have been reports of government officials hacking into user accounts and sending false messages, or pretending to speak on behalf of those they don't. We have to all be on guard. Reader Beware.