It's absolutely necessary in today's outrage fueled world to get your statement out as quickly as possible. The longer it takes to get a response out, the more the outraged masses dig in, and the less likely the truth will stand in peoples minds after the dust settles.
A false story will propagate and get thousands or hundreds of thousands of retweets and likes and spread like wildfire. The correction? Maybe a few hundred if you're lucky.
Sometimes I feel like we're living in a real life block chain. Whatever version of a story gets out first becomes the immutable truth. Nothing you can say or post has the ability to change that or reel it back in.
