Sunil Tripathi was an American student who went missing on March 16, 2013. His disappearance received widespread media attention after he was wrongfully accused on social media as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. The misidentification of Tripathi led to questions in the media about whether the so-called ‘crowd-sourced investigations’ should be prevented.
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Sunil Tripathi was an American student who went missing on March 16, 2013. His disappearance received widespread media attention after he was wrongfully accused on social media as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing. Tripathi had been missing for a month prior to the April 15, 2013 bombings. His body was found on April 23, after the actual bombing suspects had been officially identified and apprehended. The misidentification of Tripathi led to questions in the media about whether the so-called ‘crowd-sourced investigations’ should be prevented in the future. Find Sunil Tripathy is a documentary that examines what happened during the night of his disappearance and how the story spread from social media to traditional media.
The Good Wife-Whack-a-Mole based the name of the film on what happened to Tripathi’s family during the race to be first in reporting the story. The film was completed in early 2015, but the name was changed to show what happened in the aftermath of the race. Told through interviews with the family, friends, journalists and former Reddit general manager Erik Martin, the film features features voicemails left by the family.
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