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I want to have this discussion. I disagree that it is the "best place" to get news. I think it is the best place to get rumor. My favorite part of it all is that after posting a bunch of stuff from the Boston Globe, they then got upset when the Globe started to retract stuff and said they would not longer post from there (all of this after getting a lot of stuff wrong). I don't think what /r/news provides here is news. I think it has value to an extent, but it also just leads to mob mentality, obsession over things we can't know, and to people becoming internet vigilantes: http://www.salon.com/2013/04/19/the_internets_shameful_false.../