Researchers say the study of social media's large-scale societal impact should be treated as a "crisis discipline", like climate science or conservation biology (Shirin Ghaffary/Vox)

Shirin Ghaffary / Vox:
Researchers say the study of social media's large-scale societal impact should be treated as a “crisis discipline”, like climate science or conservation biology  —  One of the real challenges that we're facing is that we don't have a lot of information