Although the Internet usually seems like a dark, cynical space where opinions are polarised, meaningless hashtag wars erupt, and collective bitterness exacerbates, sometimes, a positive piece of news comes by and restores our faith in the online world again.
After scouring social media rather frantically, some good Samaritans managed to help an 18-year-old girl find her benefactor. Mevan, who runs an automatic fact-checking service in the UK, asked the Internet to aid her in her hunt for the man who had bought her a bicycle when she was a kid.