Obama at Zeitgeist Rumors Dominate San Francsico Twittersphere

thefeast.com by Kevin Meenan | Feb. 18, 2011 (News Report)

(Blog Post) President Barack Obama enjoying a #SFbeerweek brew with at the newly reopened Zeitgeist, and pics to prove it?! Rumors swirled late night Thursday that the Commander in Chief - in town for a quick meal with the Silicon Valley elite -- had made a post-dinner detour to the famed hipster hang, presumably to celebrate the bar's grand reopening. San Francisco tweeters please, are we really that gullible? Sigh.

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Business, Media
Topics: Obama Administration, Ethics in Journalism, Fake News, Social Networks, Twitter
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Posted by: Posted by Fabrice Florin - Feb 18, 2011 - 7:12 PM PST
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Edited by: Fabrice Florin - Feb 18, 2011 - 7:15 PM PST
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 by Fabrice Florin - Feb. 18, 2011

Interesting report about a false rumor spread over Twitter that President Obama was having a beer with Google's Eric Schmidt at a San Francisco bar. This short blog post provides good factual evidence to track back the origin of this prank to Memeorandum founder Gabe Rivera. It also documents how quickly this false information spread out on the Internet, after it was retweeted by a NY Times writer and other influential digerati.

A perfect example of why we should all take anything we read on the Internet with a grain of salt. The worst part is that the guy who started this false rumor runs the Memeorandum news aggregator. Gabe may have thought it was a funny prank, but I think it shows poor judgment and questionable ethics.

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