There were, of course, mass demonstrations, protests and revolts before social media. But it was hardly fast enough to diffuse the information to galvanize people into action. Word of mouth, posters, papers and fliers, even the Internet in the early stages weren't capable of spreading the information quickly enough to gather the crowds and fire them up. That's why the fast-forward spread of Arab uprisings throughout the Middle East and North Africa was so surprising. The Jan. 25 revolution that gathered thousands for days in Tahrir Square in 2011 to overthrow Mubarak was an unexpected turn of events for the Egyptians. The revolt was spontaneous and righteous but there were initial triggers to make it happen. The speed of social media and real-time propagation of the information, which were missing until then, provided the necessary fuel for the revolt. In Tunis, that was enough. In Egypt, the success was to come only after international pressure, while an intervention was needed in Libya.The Occupy Wall Street movement or the anti-austerity protests in Europe were commonly inspired by the Arab Spring but they were loosely organized and stayed sporadic. Those were the good days. Protests were naive; people were full of hope with fast and free access to information.Social media has never stopped evolving. Twitter's rule of 140 characters affected the way information was transferred. More users have begun to use social media. The volume of crowd-source has gone bigger. The quantity and the type of the data have logarithmically increased. First it was as fast and as much as we needed it to be but soon it become too fast, too much. Photograph sharing followed text-based and link-based ones. Video sharing has become attractive but the shorter, the better.Unfortunately, the quality of the data has never improved. It has gotten worse. Photograph and video sharing have made graphic editing programs and production popular and easy. Photography was harshly criticized by artists as it was a picture of an instant. There was no before or after, there was no story in it. When it became common, it started to help to cover a story but also enabled to produce a story from nothing.We came across the false information and false pictures spread via social media in Syria first. International intervention was late, the sides of the fight started to use fake materials as a method to manipulate public opinion. It made things worse. The reality and the falsehood were together, and it was difficult to understand which one was telling the truth. It still is. False information was systematically used for the first time to wind people up in Turkey's Gezi events. Quite a lot of the information used to make people hit the streets was false. People who don't know much about Turkey simply bought it. But at least, the productions last year were of high quality. This year, although the international media were still eager to buy them, they were cheap.It's not about what happens these days, it is about how it seems. Greed for speed and ignorance of verification killed critical thinking. The truth is dead until the fake gets boring.