Don't be a victim of tricky tweets

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.

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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.