On Sunday night (December 18) news reports confirmed that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il had died of a heart attack. He was ranked as the 31st most powerful person in the world by Forbes in 2010 and was also regarded by many as a tyrant, so naturally social media networks caught fire with the news. However, tracking stories on Twitter can sometimes be like playing the childhood game “Telephone”—what begins as one thing can end as another—so more than a few tweeters got their facts confused, thinking that Brooklyn rapper Lil Kim had died insteadRead more...

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