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Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

On Reddit, Orange County residents are very justifiably angry that local authorities are posting vital evacuation information on X and Instagram…which both require accounts if you want to be able to view videos easily and completely. How many people use neither? This has got to stop.

Faine Greenwood
@faineg.com

I wrote about why governments must stop relying upon Facebook and X/Twitter to communicate vital disaster information to the public a while back - unfortunately, this issue is only getting worse. You can do something about it: write to your local authorities and demand they change their approach.

little-flying-robots.ghost.ioWe Have to Stop Using Facebook and X to Warn People About DisastersIn the early morning hours of July 4th, as the Guadalupe River reached catastrophic heights, city officials in Kerr County, Texas turned to an all-too familiar mechanism for getting the word out to ar...
Andrew Facini
@andrewfacini.com

It's not just an access problem; SM is a competitive environment for critical information and in a disaster situation, algo-optimized bullshit inevitably wins the first hour. Wrote this last year thinking about a potential nuclear war, but the case is being built with each local natural disaster

thebulletin.orgPost-truth disasters: We're not ready for nuclear war on social mediaRisks of a serious crisis are rising. But for disaster response, the information environment has never been worse.

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Yank in DK
@sauldk.bsky.social

Yup. I remember being in a restaurant in Greece when everyone's phone buzzed emergency and we got links to a site that in English and Greek told us of impending forest fire dangers.