It Wasn't Sunil Tripathi: The Anatomy of a Misinformation Disaster

A missing Brown University student named Sunil Tripathi has been wrongly identified as one of the Boston bombing suspects. Tripathi went missing in the middle of March and he, along with another man named Mike Mulugeta, were said to be suspects in theAmid the confusion in Watertown, Mass., last night, the suspect who has now been properly identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was, for a time, misidentified as Sunil Tripathi, a Brown University student who disappeared MarchWhen Brown University student Sunil Tripathi was discovered missing on the weekend of March 16, his family quickly and bravely reached out to the local community and the world at large via social media to help locate theirAmid the confusion in Watertown, Mass., last night, the suspect who has now been properly identified as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was, for a time, misidentified as Sunil Tripathi, a Brown University student who

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