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Journalism may be too slow to remain credible once events are filtered through social media

  • Written by Charles Edward Gehrke, Deputy Division Director of Wargame Design and Adjudication, US Naval War College
Journalism may be too slow to remain credible once events are filtered through social mediaHouse Speaker Mike Johnson updates reporters about budget talks on Capitol Hill.AFP/Roberto Schmitt via Getty Images

In the first weeks after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a strange pattern emerged in Western media coverage. Headlines oscillated between confidence and confusion. Kyiv would fall within days, one story would claim, then...

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