Mr. Joel Finkelstein at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

You know, when I teach my students about this, I call it “atrocity pornography”—there's a way in which you're seeking confirmation for pre-existing biases. Why do people do that? People did that long before social media, and the reason they do that is uncertainty. When you're faced with uncertainty, it matters a lot less what the truth is, and it matters a lot more what mob you're with. The thing about mobs is that they're very effective at creating the truth on the ground: “Who cares about what the truth is? My mob and I will tell you what the truth is.”