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Not only has new and digital media caused a revolution online, it has effected real life situations. New and digital media has provided us with evidence in the court of law which would have never existed.  A recent example of this would be the Ian Tomlinson case. A New York lawyer sent a video he had recorded of death of Ian Tomlinson to The Guardian. The amateur video of this incident was posted on the web showed Ian Tomlinson died after being hit by a policeman during the 2009 G20 summit protests in London meaning that the police version of events was not true. In 2011 a summons for manslaughter had been issued against Simon Harwood, The policeman seen on video attacking Tomlinson; without the ‘Web 2.0’ intervention it is unlikely that the case would ever have gone to court. This emphasises how audiences can more readily challenge the official version of events.