An emergency situation underscores the importance of social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp in disseminating news, said Dwayne Winseck, a professor at Carleton University
Residents of the Northwest Territories are feeling the effect of the news vacuum on Facebook as they flee communities that are under threat by wildfires.
Yellowknife’s 20,000 residents and two nearby First Nations have been ordered to evacuate by noon on Friday, as crews battle more than 200 blazes in the Northwest Territories. The wildfires have burned an area about four times the size of Prince Edward Island, but no deaths have been reported.
“People are not getting critical information such as what’s happening in Yellowknife, with the prospect of an entire town being burned down. It’s insane,” Tsai said. The danger here, Dvorkin said, is that people will be forced to rely on information that cannot always be verified.
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