Thus, a cycle is born, in which part of the media’s new role is to gather and verify information that now originates outside of traditional channels: information is synthesized and produced by the hive mind; the media contextualizes and verifies it; the hive mind then digests and synthesizes that new, verified information, producing even more new information based on that; and this repeats, endlessly. Eventually, a highly refined product emerges. But the process is messy, and now more visible than ever. Unfortunately, as we saw last night, it can sometimes lead to terrible things. But there is no going back.