hype train leaving the
station doesn’t mean we need
to all get on it
What else could I be talking about but the weather?
In the story, When the Storm Online Is Worse Than the One Outside By Shawn Hubler, Mr. Hubler writes:
“The online environment in 2024 is a mess,” said Brian Ferguson, a spokesman for the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.
In recent years, amateur weather trackers’ posts have quickly spread through social media. Some have responsibly shared the latest information from experts, but others have found that extreme language can result in more shares and likes.
Brian Garcia, the warning coordination meteorologist for the National Weather Service’s San Francisco Bay Area office, said he and his colleagues had become more aggressive in combating misinformation.
“People want to increase their following on social media, and one of the best ways is to go catastrophic and alarm people,” Mr. Garcia said. “But just because the hype train is leaving the station doesn’t mean we to need to all get on it.”
The weather.
The poor old weather.
Everybody talks about the weather but nobody every does anything about it.
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