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‘West Elm Caleb’ and the vindictiveness of a social media feeding frenzy

23 January 2022

7:06 PM

23 January 2022

7:06 PM

The saga of ‘West Elm Caleb’ will make you wish that you had never used the internet. It will make you wish that you had never heard of the internet. It is the sort of thing that would make Ted Kaczynski feel vindicated, if his prison guards forced him to look at social media as some kind of esoteric punishment.

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