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'It’s time to use your Twitter account for something beyond posting pictures of your summer holidays'

White nationalists march in Charlottesville, Virginia: social media reported the events, which ended with the death of a woman in a ramming attack on counter-demonstrators

Are you on social media? Do you have a Twitter profile? A Facebook account? An Instagram page? A Snapchat? You do? Good. There’s something I want to tell you.

Here’s the thing: did you know you’re a reporter now? Yes, a reporter. Okay, maybe you haven’t invested in the trenchcoat, the pencil behind the ear and the notebook stuffed into your side-pocket just yet, although to be frank, the Hollywood clichés attached to ...