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Intelligencer / John Herrman / Dec 11, 2024
“This was, for a while, a niche form of reporting, often done by amateurs and eventually professionalized by new media organizations with young employees. It promised revelation from the dark corners of the web: While reporters were on the street getting quotes from neighbors about how the killer was ‘such a nice boy, and quiet,’ a compilation of violent or alarming posts, made in secrecy or obscurity, would tell the real story. In practice, it wasn’t always so fruitful.”
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