YES YES AND YES “The same media companies who have lambasted social media platforms for not acting fast enough to remove extremist content are simultaneously.. [making] rambling ‘manifestos’ of crazed killers available for download" or plastering their faces and words everywhere.https://twitter.com/nashthomas/status/1108476189276925953 …
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There are other people who've been writing on this. Check out
@AriSchulman for example. https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-not-to-cover-mass-shootings-1510939088 … (who has a bunch of stuff). -
Trad media is among the most important vectors here (social media is definitely crucial for normalizing/recruiting/spreading) but mass media remains a top target. Unfortunately, they don't devote the same energy to analyzing their own role in all this (or in 2016). Somehow.
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