@Kris, let me try and respond. When BBC did that story, they sent someone to the ground who actually verified the accounts and provided an insight into the news there. They followed the story piece by piece, note that the date posted is Mar 21st, just after the UNSC resolution. Obviously there is much to be told, many sides of the story, and also the loss of innocent lives. What BBC may not have covered is the killings and bad treatment of african migrant workers in liberated areas but that is another story too. Libya news is quite complicated but not limited to consipracy theorists.

 

Now, how would Ushaidi verify its social networks inputs, and then without any verfications, publish that data on Maps on the public internet? I believe when Ushaidi was born, at that time they still didn't have a verification mechanism on SMS but am sure they do by now which is why the system would be accurate. Social networks is almost impossible to verify due to proxies etc unless from the ground, as in the case of the BBC report.

 

me thots.