You mean like when we crowdsourced the identity of the Boston Marathon bomber? Because it's all well and good when the crowd gets it right and the lynch mob go

You mean like when we crowdsourced the identity of the Boston Marathon bomber? Because it's all well and good when the crowd gets it right and the lynch mob goes to town on the bad guy. But the issue is when that mob gets turned on the wrong guy. The internet has a long memory and seldom admits when it is wrong. "Bob Jerry is the Boston Marathon bomber" sticks around much longer than "Whoops, our bad, Bob Jerry is just some dude"