Anyway here's my take on how the momo challenge, like every other challenge that scares parents, wasn't really viral until parents started freaking out about ithttps://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/03/01/momo-challenge-isnt-viral-danger-children-online-it-sure-is-viral/?utm_term=.cd718abfc141 …
"But if it saves just one kid" is something I imagine a lot of local tv news producers saying in story meetings.
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It's weird how the coverage of this story simultaneously downplays and exaggerates the dangers of online, by blowing an urban legend up into a fake epidemic and ignoring how vulnerable people are at risk from panics like these.
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