The Anatomy of a Media Lynching
No. 51, Jan.-Feb. 2025 This article analyses organizational aspects of media/cyber lynching, especially when performed in the yellow (sensationalist) press and passionate parts of the Internet community. Media and cyber lynching can be defined as extremely aggressive, unjustified, untrue verbal attacks, insults and discrediting in the media. One good book says: “You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice”. However, we often do, maybe because we scroll brainrot media more than we read books. I try to add a drop in the ocean of medicines that our sick societies desperately need, so we might cure them without the accompanying evils of revolution. More