TechScape: ‘Lives are ruined in an afternoon’ – social media and the Huw Edwards story

A collective failure of social media … a former Twitter staffer alleges that moderation failures led to Huw Edwards being named on social media ahead of official reports. Photograph: BBC

Social media imploded and the BBC practically ate itself last week as the scandal over Huw Edwards allegedly paying for explicit images from an unnamed young person unspooled.

But what you knew, and when, depended largely on where you looked.