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jadedog · 2864 days ago · link · · parent · post: Reddit mods are so terrible, they are making national news.
Yes. In this case, one of the benefits of news being shared on a large platform was that there were people sharing about the needs of the blood donation centers in real time. Since there were people right there, they could share with a wider audience about how people could help in the crisis. One of the huge criticisms in that debacle was that some of those helpful posts were deleted in the midst of everything else going on. However, when it's working the way it should, there can be benefits to getting information from a large platform where people can share their experiences of an event with people who are actually there in real time.