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Reddit apologizes for 'online witch hunt' for Boston bombing suspect

2013-04-23 14:19:35| InfoWorld: Top News

In a testament to the issues surrounding the appropriate use of social media during a tragedy, Reddit is publicly apologizing for the role that it played last week in fueling an online witch hunt that led to identifying an innocent Brown University student as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings.

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