Very gratified they didn’t just post these as rendered gifs. Imagine the social media scare you could generate in a year or so after everyone has forgotten abo

Very gratified they didn’t just post these as rendered gifs. Imagine the social media scare you could generate in a year or so after everyone has forgotten about this eruption by sharing a graphics.reuters.com URL for one of these animations that appears to show a satellite image sequence of a massive mushroom cloud obliterating the Korean Peninsula or the Sinai with a breathless ‘LOOK WHAT REUTERS JUST REPORTED!!!’ caption. It’s really important for reputable sources posting images to think about the fake news potential of them getting shared out of context.