Let's talk about overzealous online detectives and their paranoid conspiracy theories.
Notorious examples:
Reddit's Boston Bomber fiasco
> After the bombing, a very intense circlejerk devoloped where some redditors tried to find the culprits. These folks mistakenly identified some missing kid of eastern descent as the perpetrator, which lead to this poor kid's mom receiving threats from random internet people. The kid was later found dead in a river if I recall correctly. (He killed himself before the bombing, fyi)Marina Joyce
> >>>/snow/159476Currently: Pizzagate and #WhereisAssange.
https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/https://www.reddit.com/r/WhereIsAssange/> Some pizza place is totally a child traffic front> Julian Assange is kidnapped and/or dead