Tripathi became the focus of speculation after the crowdsourcing users of Reddit identified him as the "white hat" suspect. There were reports last night on Twitter that Tripathi's name was being used by police on police scanners. NDTV.com reports that
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It's easy to criticize users of the influential social-news site Reddit for circulating the photos of random innocent bystanders and fingering them as potential suspects in the Boston bombings. I did it myself just yesterday, deriding Redditors for
The battle between traditional media and social media continues.
If you thought the New York Post's "Bag Men" outing was bad, the most crowdsourced terror investigation in American history transformed from Internet sleuthing of FBI photos on Thursday night into a lynch mob — from Reddit to a police scanner to
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