Powered by the sheer scale of social media activity, today, public shaming has gotten totally out of hand, Jon Ronson argues in The New York Times Magazine. Early on, “the collective fury felt
righteous, powerful and effective,” the author say of online shaming. Yet, “As time passed … I watched these shame campaigns multiply, to the point that they targeted not just
powerful institutions and public figures but really anyone perceived to have done something offensive.”
Read the whole story at The New York Times »