This article is about a website that has just been activated that can monitor anything that is emerging in the press. Any rumor can be monitored to see how it is being spread and if it is being spread with or without change. She explains how the internet moves quickly and how any rumor that emerges can spread like wildfire. They "don't just spread extremely quickly ; they are also extremely difficult to contain." One of this website's main goal is to see the credibility of the rumors that are around these days on the internet. They can track how the rumor was spread to see if the rumor is real or not. She talks about a story that has been very popular these days of a woman that said she had implanted a third breast. The website has proven that this story is not real and that all the information was made up. This website proved that the ISIS leader had not been killed (there is a recent rumor that he was killed in a American airstrike). This website can see how many times the post was shared and how the shared posts were modified. This can be very useful for all the millions of rumors that are alive in the internet today.
The author is successful with this article because she first explains the importance of all the article and then defines the subject clearly. She uses examples that grab the reader's interest and that helps the idea be better explained. She explains well how the website works and why it matters to us readers. THe definitions and the evidences are convincing and it helps the overall passage.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/09/how-to-stop-a-rumor-online-before-the-rumor-becomes-a-lie/380778/
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