The part the internet usually skips

We track crime-related incidents that surface on social media, from the viral moment through to their verified resolution — the charge, the court disposition, and whether the video everyone shared was even real.

Most coverage of a viral clip stops the day it stops trending. We keep watching: is the footage authentic or miscaptioned, what actually happened in court, and whether the case gets corrected, retracted, or expunged months later. That epilogue is the thing no outlet bothers to compile — so we built a system whose whole job is to catch it.

We are an editorial publication built on primary sources — official records and established news coverage, never speculation. How we handle names, sourcing, and corrections is spelled out in full on our disclosure and corrections policy.