#bostonmarathonbombing — Public Fediverse posts

the resolution to the #massShooting at #brownUniversity in #providence #rhodeIsland is odd

there was a mob mentality of "detectives" on #reddit during the #bostonMarathonBombing in 2013 that led to smearing the wrong person

but this time, it really was reddit that saved the day:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/us/brown-mit-shooting-investigation-reddit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.908.wEEk.sd-vCyzzPrqq

the alleged perp may also have killed a professor at #MIT, #NunoLoureiro

how was that connected?

they were old classmates together in #Portugal

😬

the reddit hero:

https://www.reddit.com/r/providence/comments/1pphgfz/fyi/

Trump says DoJ will ‘vigorously’ pursue death penalty after Biden commutations https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/24/trump-death-penalty-justice-department-biden-commutations #BostonMarathonbombing #Trumpadministration #Bidenadministration #Pittsburghshooting #Capitalpunishment #DonaldTrump #Republicans #USpolitics #JoeBiden #USnews

“The Boston Marathon bombing just really drives home where that very natural human process of trying to figure things out can go awry,” my University of Washington Center for an Informed Public colleague @katestarbird, a UW associate professor whose research on misinformation grew in part from the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing, told The Boston Globe. [2/2]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/12/metro/marathon-bombings-12-hour-suspect/

#MisinformationResearch #UWCIP #BostonMarathonBombing #BostonGlobe

The Boston Globe has a good article looking back at the 12-hour saga 10 years ago when "amateur sleuths, social media users, and some in the media wrongly proclaimed Sunil [Tripathi] was a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing." [1/2]

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/04/12/metro/marathon-bombings-12-hour-suspect/

#MisinformationResearch #Crowdsourcing #BostonMarathonBombing #Boston