The Bubba Wallace noose-that-wasn& #39;t story is not the story of a "hoax." Bubba himself didn& #39;t report it. Everyone involved tried to do the right thing. It& #39;s a story of how stories go viral in the social media age before anyone has time to check them, and how that doesn& #39;t help us.

Before social media and its incentives for instant virality, a suspected hate crime like this would be quickly investigated by stakeholders and reporters, and only then would the findings be disclosed to the public. Today, the incident hits Twitter *before* any investigation. https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1275597561139802113">https://twitter.com/Yair_Rose...

In fact, news outlets often cover stories now before they have time to fully vet them because they worry that they& #39;ll otherwise be perceived as ignoring them (see: Tara Reade) or that the story will be monopolized by misinformed actors online if the outlets don& #39;t jump in first. https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/1275598946761674752">https://twitter.com/Yair_Rose...