Modern Day Witch Hunts Employ Social Media Network Armando Gonzalez - Mexico News Daily
go to original April 22, 2015

The term “witch hunt” dates back to a time when men and women were wrongly accused of witchcraft by biased and ignorant vigilantism, backed by anonymous sayings or reports.

A collective psychosis, fanned by community leaders, pushed enraged mobs to pass summary trial, applying unfair judgement and, in many cases, ending in the execution of the accused, their close relatives included.

Since then, excesses in the alleged persecution of public and everyday life figures are known as a witch hunt.

Modern digital technology and the speed of the so-called “social networks” makes it very easy to witness or pry into the lives of others, using any information obtained, purposefully or otherwise, to further a private agenda. Any portable phone is now a high-tech camera and audio recorder that in a matter of milliseconds sends pictures and text to millions of people through the aforementioned networks, broadcasting its message even farther without perspective, obviating a fitting analysis.

Before, only the famous — athletes, musicians, movie stars and the rich — suffered the constant persecution of fashion magazine photojournalists. Today, its new form has extended to a very intense intrusion in the lives of politicians.

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