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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Replying to @alexstamos
I wrote one in 2012, 7 years ago. https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/12/the-media-needs-to-stop-inspiring-copycat-murders-heres-how/266439/ … It was a first attempt to try to get at the problem, and it's the most recipe-like one and needs updating but the idea holds imho. Wrote another in 2015. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html … Wrote more in 2017.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/zeyneptufekci/dont-let-isis-shape-the-news …
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Replying to @zeynep @alexstamos
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).1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
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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