Trial by social media only works if the world takes seriously the judgement in the court of public opinion. Of course, in prior eras someone could say "she's a

Trial by social media only works if the world takes seriously the judgement in the court of public opinion. Of course, in prior eras someone could say "she's a witch!" in the town square and the authorities might join in with the burning. Because your fate was decided by public opinion, everyone cheered, you must be guilty, right? At some point we grew beyond that as a society, but we're regressing again. You don't exactly get burned, you just get kicked off of private business property, but maybe we're not far from that happening too.