It is not unusual these days to hear folk say that we don't need journalists or legacy news agencies because we have social media and the "new" way to get news.
Except once again we see what happens when the faceless internet mob tries to be investigators.
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Which Twitter promptly thought it did, pointing the figure at the wrong person.
The faceless internet mob faces no such consequences.
Social media warriors do not operate that way. But investigative journalists do.
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