Surely there is, and the world has seen in the past few years extraordinary examples of how Twitter and Facebook, for example, have shaped world events both by allowing breaking news to be posted instantaneously from the ground and by reposting professionally produced content.
Tuesday's events came a day after the Food and Drug Administration posted on its website a list of more than 1, 200 hospitals and clinics that it said had purchased drugs from the compounding center that, if contaminated, would be especially dangerous.