Using Social Media Strictly as a News Source

A group of journalists will be travelling to the south of France. There, they will reside in an isolated farmhouse and restrict their news sources to social media (i.e. Twitter and Facebook) for five full days. The journalists will be relying on the people of social media to provide them with a news communication system; focusing on tweets, trending topics, posts and status updates. This experiment will test how much fact and fiction the journalists can receive by merely using social media as sites for news access.

"The five journalists will not click on a news link unless that link has been tweeted to them from somebody within their network. The idea is to see exactly what other people are tweeting about."

Daily updates on this experiment will be given to Radio-Canada. Read more on this subject here.