News of Malaysia Airlines MH370 crash brings out worst, best on social media

Picking through the avalanche of social media snippets will reveal the good, the bad and the unconfirmed rumours.

Tan Xing Qi| March 08, 07:42 AM

Barely half an hour after a Reuters news report established that Malaysia Airlines MH370 flight carrying 239 people has crashed into the sea 153 miles off the coast of Vietnam's Tho Chu island on Saturday, Malaysia's transport minister said the report on Malaysia Airlines plane crash in Vietnam is "not true".

 

Reuters report at about 2pm Singapore time:

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The Straits Times Facebook update half an hour later at about 230pm:

With unconfirmed, conflicting and sometimes, confusing reports streaming in, the worst and best of social media is on full display.

 

Here are the worst:

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...and the best:

 

And the purely speculative:

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Picture showing a Malaysia Airlines plane with a broken wing tip from a Chinese forum.

 

Top photo from BBC News (World) Twitter

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