Many turned to Twitter and social media for information, updates, and real-time reports and photographs during Hurricane Sandy. But that also led to fake news and images, such as the Statue of Liberty under dark storm clouds, the flooding of the NYSE trading floor, and sharks swimming in flooded subway stations, being spread and picked up by traditional media outlets. The above image is a production still from the 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow.

Many turned to Twitter and social media for information, updates, and real-time reports and photographs during Hurricane Sandy. But that also led to fake news and images, such as the Statue of Liberty under dark storm clouds, the flooding of the NYSE trading floor, and sharks swimming in flooded subway stations, being spread and picked up by traditional media outlets.

The above image is a production still from the 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow.

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