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Los Angeles residents turn to Watch Duty app for rapid wildfire updates | Many online have posted about the app, which is run by a nonprofit group, calling it an essential resource amid rapidly changing weather conditions.
Many online have posted about the app, which is run by a nonprofit group, calling it an essential resource amid rapidly changing weather conditions.
Throughout Tuesday and into Wednesday, many Angelenos circulated screenshots of the app across social media, encouraging others to download it and calling it a lifeline amid rapidly changing weather conditions. In recent years, social media-fueled conspiracy theories have become commonplace during natural disasters, with many sharing misinformation and outlandish claims about the origins of such weather-related events. “And so if it takes a few extra minutes to get it out there, that’s fine, but we want it to be that official info; and because we built a one-way communication platform, we don’t offer that venue for people to circulate nonsense ... And so it really puts the ball in our court for good information”
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