I see no reason not to include social media in the mix.
Doesn’t help if people don’t use it.
That said, they should definitely stop using the thing formerly known as Twitter.
Use news outlets and SMS alerts, those are “correct” ways of handling such situations, social media is not.
chitak166@lemmy.world 10 months ago
moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Mastodon can be used as a feed and integrated on websites easily. People can follow the latest news and reports about the disaster. They don’t need to use mastodon or follow them. People need to know this is the right place to go to for a live ticker about a dessaster with an easy URL like disaster.gov.jp.
On top of this, they are independent with their own instance and don’t rely on social media companies servers.
TV and radio are definitely not the right place anymore. Too many people live without them. SMS can be a thing. We
Buffalox@lemmy.world 10 months ago
OK that makes a lot of sense. ;)