NLP says… Stop being a twitter tool please

The BBC’s Dan Walker hit the nail on the head. In the aftermath of the horrific terror attacks at the Manchester Arena on Monday night, the presenter was responding – by Tuesday morning – to a number of people who were choosing to use social media, in this particular case twitter, to get retweets by posting ‘fake’ news following the tragic events. This was anything from ‘misleading’ information for the emergency services, to claiming they had lost loved ones in the atrocity, and it led Walker to tweet his reply: I love social media, but it is a powe...

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