He had to give all the canned tuna he had stocked up in anticipation of an
earthquake that was supposed to hit Dubai on Sunday to his two cats.
This was what resident Ziad Al Jamaan (@ziadaljamaan) shared on Twitter.
Did he lie about the tuna? Or the earthquake?
When contacted by Gulf News, he said that the tweet was a tongue-in-cheek
message to those spreading the false news about the earthquake. However, not all
Twitter users reacted the way Al Jamaan did.
Many Twitterers also posted tweets expressing panic. The news was later
dismissed as just a rumour by an official from the National Centre of
Meteorology and Seismology (NCMS).
Last Sunday's turn of events point out to an alarming fact — social networks
are rife with false news.
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