An Extremely Online Hurricane Season
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Misinformation in the wake of disasters isn’t new, but the media environment today—rife with A.I. images, light on moderation, and eager to point fingers—seems more vulnerable to it than ever.
Guest: Will Oremus, technology writer for the Washington Post.
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| 0:00.0 | As Hurricane Milton battered Florida last week, there was one Tampa resident that a whole lot of people were watching ride out the storm. |
| 0:14.6 | All right, Dan, the people that are new, explain to them why you're assigned to seek out a category |
| 0:19.8 | five, one of the worst hurricanes in Tampa history out on a 20 foot sailboat in Tampa |
| 0:27.4 | harbor. His name is Joseph, sometimes goes by Jay, but he's known online as lieutenant Dan. |
| 0:36.0 | Like the character in Forrest Gump, he is an amputee who lives on a boat, and he insisted on |
| 0:41.2 | staying there. |
| 0:42.2 | We know what we're doing, and as long as the word is here, and he |
| 0:45.0 | right now we know what we're doing and as long as the water just keeps your eyes and we'll be fine. |
| 0:46.0 | Will you be wearing a life jacket? |
| 0:48.0 | Hell no. |
| 0:50.0 | After first going viral on the live stream of a guy named Tampa Terrence, |
| 0:54.7 | Lieutenant Dan showed up on the Weather Channel local news. Are you okay? |
| 1:00.1 | Everybody's worried about you. We're worried about you. |
| 1:03.0 | It's all over Tik-top. |
| 1:05.0 | And you know what? |
| 1:06.8 | Lieutenant Dan, he made it. |
| 1:09.2 | In the end, he called the storm pretty mellow. |
| 1:11.6 | The thing is. he called the storm pretty mellow. |
| 1:17.1 | The thing is, it wasn't just Lieutenant Dan processing Milton on social media. |
| 1:19.7 | There was Instagram star Caroline Calloway |
| 1:22.1 | who was posting through it from her Sarasota apartment. |
| 1:25.7 | There was that Florida meteorologist who broke down in tears while watching the storm swirl |
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