kittenspine:

police are blaming social media because we’ve hit a point in social media where mass amounts of people are being made aware of events via first person accounts, through photos and videos and live streams 

of course they’re blaming social media because social media is making it harder to lie and hide the truth 

This is behind a lot of complaints about social media/the Internet by authorities, especially by those whose power rests on concepts the Internet challenges: Authorized accounts and news; nation-states and borders; a separation between people / citizens / accredited journalists / politicians.