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Boston bombing: Reddit learns how 'witch hunts can start'

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Boston bombing: Reddit learns how 'witch hunts can start'

Fueled by Twitter, online forums like Reddit and 4Chan, smartphones and relays of police scanners, thousands of people played armchair detective as police searched for men who turned out to be suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, ethnic Chechen

Reddit's involvement – whether excellent or terrible – in the hunt for leads in the Boston bombings justification does not appear to be the wits for ongoing site outages

On Reddit, an increasingly influential shared media site owned by magazine publisher Conde Nast, users posted cinema taken from the bomb scene and engaged in a large-scale, semi-organized effort to identify the bombers. At one point, users even

Head Barack Obama has cautioned against repeating the identification and pursuit of suspects using shared media and online forums such as Twitter and Reddit in future, after the furore over the Boston lengthy bombings. Speaking after prime

If you have followed Reddit's coverage, or shall I say discussion – of the Boston incident you may have noticed that a post on the site could easily accumulate thousands of comments in no time at all. The same is right for many other items that be converted into

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