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People find user-generated content more authentic to tell the story

“Video circulating on social media shows a massive explosion rocking central Beirut,”  reads the beginning of the Guardian’s description of this shocking video footage taken by citizens. The video fragment is a piece of history. Social media and technologies are opening the whole new vista for news, with its unprecedented speed of reaction to breaking events. User-generated content is also called “citizen ... Read More »