Social media is increasingly becoming an important tool for emergency management and response.
![Social media activity flares up in areas affected by disasters, often reaching up to thousands of postings and hundreds of photos per minute, writes Castillo [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/20141130144435467734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)

Carlos Castillo is a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute in Doha. He is a web miner with a background in information retrieval, and has been influential in the areas of adversarial web search and web content quality and credibility.
Social media is increasingly becoming an important tool for emergency management and response.
![Social media activity flares up in areas affected by disasters, often reaching up to thousands of postings and hundreds of photos per minute, writes Castillo [EPA]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/20141130144435467734_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)
Telling apart digital fortunetelling and science will never be easy.
!["The octopus chose the box of food with the 'correct' flag with 100 percent success rate on the seven matches that Germany played, something that has a 1 in 128 chance of happening by accident," writes Carlos Castillo [Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2013103155251382580_20.jpeg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80)