N. Anthony Alexiou
Deputy Director
Montgomery County Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security
David M. McKernan
Coordinator of Emergency Management
Office of Emergency Management, Fairfax County, Virginia
In a world awash with information, social media can be a powerful tool to quickly disseminate information to constituents in emergency situations. The immediacy needs to be balanced against the need to verifying the validity of the information when every second counts. How do we achieve that?
This session will discuss how official agencies can verify or validate information being spread through social media in an emergency situation.