The Reddits and Buzzfeeds of the world have taken the place of newspapers and the evening news. Our reporter in the field is you or anyone with a smartphone.

The recent explosion on Aug 4 2020 in Beirut Lebanon is just another example of how a crisis will be “covered” by a crowdsourced media. The chain of information seems to go from personal account to general public to news source to a digital rebroadcast of a compilation of single sourced feeds. It’s an endless cycle.

Who is fact checking the reports? Where is Journalism in today’s communication industry? And how has this barrage of data changed us as Americans? We take a closer look.

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