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Social networking services (SNS) such as Twitter play an important role in the collective knowledge, consensus of citizens and decision making regarding various countermeasures. In particular, since SNS have great power to communicate information in the context of disasters and pandemics, scientists and administrators are required to understand how peopleʼs collective knowledge and trust are formed through SNS and how to communicate risk and scientific information using SNS. Therefore, a special session entitled “Considering the state of scientific information dissemination during crises in the age of social networking” was held at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis Japan. Risk and scientific information dissemination using SNS regarding the Fukushima disaster was discussed: characteristics related to information diffusion on Twitter, the evaluation and fact check of information that influenced the evacuation behavior in Fukushima, and recommendations for scientific information dissemination in the age of SNS derived from these research findings. This paper introduces the contents of the presentations and discussions at the session. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]