Reddit Apologizes for Content Implicating Missing Student in Boston Bombings
Reddit has issued a formal apology for the conversations on its platform last week that wrongly implicated the missing Brown University student Sunil Tripathi as they tracked the manhunt for the two Boston bombing suspects caught on videotape.
Reddit has issued a formal apology for the conversations on its platform last week that wrongly implicated the missing Brown University student Sunil Tripathi as they tracked the manhunt for the two Boston bombing suspects caught on videotape.
On Reddit and on Twitter, users following the manhunt by listening in to police scanners reported that the police had mentioned Tripathi and Mike Mulugeta in connection with the videotaped suspects, who turned out to have been Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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