With lots of real news spreading like wildfire over social media, it is inevitable that false news spreads over Twitter too, and it does.

The Huffington Post‘s Mandy Jenkins and Regret the Error‘s Craig Silverman held a session at the Online News Association Conference here on Friday afternoon with the goal of preventing the participants from falling into a trap. (Slides from the presentation are available here.)

Yes, this is a real picture, but no it didn’t happen during Hurricane Irene. It’s a couple of years old.

One of Jenkins and Silverman’s bigge

via How Do You Detect B.S. On Social Networks? – 10,000 Words.