DeJoy said Astronomer is “now a household name,” but he said he “would never have wished for it to happen like this,” calling the heightened attention “unusual and surreal for our team.”

In this distressing American moment, who knew that what our nation needed was a canoodling pair having their affair put on blast at a Coldplay concert?

If there’s a lesson from so-called Coldplaygate, it’s the extent to which, during the past decade or so of digital culture, going viral has gone from being an aspirational goal to a form of punishmen...