another great job roc.In another painful case of misplaced suspicions, the family of a young man reported missing last month have had to take down a Facebook account set up to help find him after a wave of Internet users falsely – incorrectly – connected the missing man to the photos of Boston bombing suspects released Thursday.
The parents live outside Philadelphia. Philly.com reports:
The name they gave was that of Sunil Tripathi, 22, a Brown University student from Bryn Mawr who was reported missing last month in Providence, R.I.
The speculation went viral on the Internet, some statements portraying it as fact, and reached his family.
"It was Twitter, viral, a very ugly effort," his sister, Sangeeta said in an interview.
“That escalated throughout the evening of course," she said. "It was a very ugly night.”
that's 2 for 2 now. you've recycled 2 garbage internet theories and both have ended up damaging the innocent people involved.
such a smart guy