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When The Internet shines it's often very much through the act of fact checking and editing, though. Reddit, Twitter, etc, didn't have the right design for enabling this virtue on Friday, though. On Reddit there's a character limit on the size of "self" posts, so the "live update" threads had to keep being restarted. It was just a mess--history was being buried, the noise ratio in the comments was disgusting, the number of comments were jumping by 400-500 every 3 minutes. And, of course, now I feel like I'm making a case to design and build something that's adapted for collecting, corroborating, checking, and editing news during fast-moving events with mass attention and participation. Stack Exchange for journalism or something like that.