Click Here to Read: The price of public shaming in the Internet age By Todd Leopold on the CNN website on April 16, 2015.
In the Internet age, shaming has become a subject for social media, sometimes haunting subjects well after they have apologized. After author Jonah Lehr was found to have made up quotations and accused of plagerizing passages, he apologized in a speech — only to be ripped in live Twitter feed while delivering the address. “So you have been publically shamed,” author Jon Ronson said.