Mob rule goes digital.

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Mob rule goes digital.

Crowdsourcing investigations is a noble cause and have a lot of benefits and successes. However, this was not a success and could have directly influenced this young man's death.

Originally shared by Linda Lawrey

Student wrongly tied to Boston bombings found dead.
Reddit apologized for the 'dangerous speculation' on the site that pointed fingers at the student.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2013/04/25/boston-bombing-social-media-student-brown-university-reddit/2112309/

Comments

James Clayton said…
Sort of too late to apologize, assuming he committed suicide or was murdered for it. (And assuming this story is true... this is the internet) People really shouldn't do a guessing game for terror suspects.
April 25, 2013 at 9:57 PM
Michael Smith said…
Wait, the article says that he hasn't been seen since March 15th, a month before everything happened. So he has been missing, and possibly dead, since mid-March and only found now.

If that's true, then the false accusations didn't contribute to his death, though they did create grief and pain for a family with a missing person.
April 25, 2013 at 10:34 PM
Jason ON said…
One has to assume, Michael Smith , if he was dead for more than a week they would have been able to verify that by now.

However, you're right. Without a definitive date, there is no way to correctly make a correlation.
April 25, 2013 at 11:49 PM
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