HAPPENING: Roberts panics over Pizzagate, fears angry mobs

>Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts said in his year-end report that people should be aware of disinformation on the Internet spread through social media.

>Roberts recounted the story of John Jay, one of the three authors of the Federalist Papers, getting injured during the Doctors’ Riot in 1788 after an angry mob gathered, riled up by a rumor that students at a hospital were dissecting a child’s recently deceased mother.

>A rioter struck Jay, who was helping to quell the riot, in the head with a rock, leading to him being by far the least productive contributor to the papers.

>"In our age, when social media can instantly spread rumor and false information on a grand scale, the public’s need to understand our government, and the protections it provides, is ever more vital,” Roberts wrote

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