Mu h of the social media crap is being done by trolls for laughs. Buzzfeed got trolled hard and actually believed some of the craziness some folks were tweeting, like really over the tops racist crap. #baltimorelootcrew is an example.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/emaoconnor/baltimore-loot-crew-is-fake
Buzzfeed took the bait and just ate it right up. They journo didn’t bother to spend even a minute checking the account of one of the Twitter users she interviewed. She wanted to believe, which makes her far more depraved than the trolls who fooled her.
Twitter has killed journalism. I love it.