Online social networking services like Twitter are now globally the very first places to go to check for breaking news on any subject.But their open crowd-sourcing model comes with some challenges.The biggest challenge is the accuracy of information shared. People tend to share news before checking facts or sources. Also, there are quite a number of people who purposefully spread false information. A rumor can be spread in a matter of seconds on social media and it doesn't end with the Internet. Journalists now use social media as a primary source and they get used to reporting faster and checking less in order to keep up with the speed of social media. Tweeting false reports about Turkey has recently become an irresistible trend. Just last week, false tweets about Turkey's Justice and Development Party (AK Party) were all about voterigging claims in the local elections. One of the major rumors trending on Twitter was that a grey car allegedly belonging to the son of AK Party Ankara mayoral candidate Melih Gökçek made off with sealed ballot slips. Even the car's license plate and model were shared on social media and "volunteer detectives" set out to chase the car through Ankara's streets. The car eventually turned out to belong to a main opposition party member.Another rumor was based on copies of legal documents spread via social media. One particular rumor spread like wildfire: A snapshot of a document from Ankara claimed that the number of AK Party votes in a particular ballot box were more than the total number of valid votes. The two numbers were marked with red on the snapshot as an evidence of AK Party foul play because the number of valid votes was 173 while the number of votes for the AK Party was 185. Even journalists shared the document without a second thought but it was written on the left-hand side of the document that the number of all the votes in the ballot box was 284 while there were only 10 invalid votes and one invalid envelope written on the right-hand side. Accordingly, the number of valid votes was obviously mistaken as it had to be 273 not 173. The fact was overlooked by many just because of the misleading red marks.Social media is about chattering, and sharing feeds is a matter of free speech; but it is also a newswire. Shouldn't there be legal repercussions for tweeting false news? Otherwise, what will we do in cases of emergencies, like earthquakes or hurricanes or wars? As we see in the case of Syria, Kim Kardashian's tweet about the Armenian Christian village of Kasab bolstered the false claims of Assad loyalists and attracted more attention than any other tweet by a Syrian in the three-year genocide. Where will we draw the line?