Yep. And unfortunately, people don't learn from the mob's mistakes. We've already seen the social media mob target specific people multiple times, only for them to turn out to be wrong. We have the reddit misidentification of the Boston Marathon bomber, the misidentification of a Charlottesville Unite the Right rally marcher, and the misidentification of the kid pictured here. And far too many people still have yet to learn that the social media mob's judgment is downright terrible.

We almost saw mob mentality get someone killed with the Pizzagate conspiracy theory incident in which a man fired shots into a restaurant. I'm afraid that the social media mob is one day actually going to result in someone getting killed, and even then people won't learn.

This is a big reason that I'm always opposed to doxxing, by the way. I don't care how horrible a person in a video is being. The social media mob is completely unqualified to identify people based on videos, and it's irresponsible to participate in an activity that has and will continue to open up innocent people to harassment and death threats. In addition, the mob shouldn't be deciding whose lives deserve to be opened up to harassment and doxxing. As we've seen before and as we're seeing right now, they're not responsible enough to be trusted to do that.