Gene Cooley had just suffered a huge tragedy, and he was trying to move on. But suddenly
anonymous posters started saying horrible things about him on a website called Topix. The horrible
things weren't true. But that didn't stop the people in Gene's small town — a town of just 600 people — from believing them.
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