The 50 Megaton Tweet

Tragic mistake? Elaborate hoax? Or terrorist attack? When social media breaks the news that the President of the United States has been assassinated, the world is completely taken by surprise. Left scrambling in the aftermath of the President’s death, big media and government struggle to control the whirlwind of public opinion, but the age of information has passed them by. Soon, they find themselves at the mercy of the very technologies they once embraced.

In The 50 Megaton Tweet, R. C. Wade explores the real-world dangers of relying too heavily on social media for news and other sensitive information, and paints a picture of a time bomb waiting to explode.

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