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Internet Detective Only Destroys Three Innocent Peoples’ Lives Before Never Actually Solving Case (thehardtimes.net)

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[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The guy who Reddit suspected was a guy who had committed suicide before the bombing happened. The sad thing is that people were harassing his family after Reddit accused the guy until the FBI revealed who actually did it.

[–] BenVimes@lemmy.ca 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They harassed the guy's family on the Facebook page they had set up to look for him because he had gone missing.

EDIT: Also, once the actual perpetrators were identified, some users tried to excuse their appalling behaviour by blaming the innocent man for "acting suspicious."