How did social media and various technologies keep you updated with the "Perfect Storm"? Show and explain the GBU (good bad & ugly) of the media and societies use of technology to keep people informed.

Like No. 9, this one didn't take any sophisticated sleuthing to debunk.
The Atlantic's Madrigal scores it "
fake (but awesome)":

Also in the not-fake-but-not-Sandy category is this picture purporting to be from a hurricane-ravaged McDonald's in Virginia. It's not. In a case of life imitating art, the photo is from a 2009 installation/film called, appropriately enough,
Flooded McDonald's:
http://theweek.com/article/index/235578/10-fake-photos-of-hurricane-sandy
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