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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 May 2017
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      I've been writing this for years. Media sensationalism/loop is part of this cycle—school shootings to terrorism.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html …

      10 replies 194 retweets 371 likes
    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 May 2017
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      To all media that put videos of panic on loop: research is clear, such overwrought sensationalism helps inspire the next one. Good work. 😡😡

      7 replies 472 retweets 859 likes
    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 May 2017
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      Public mass-murder terrorism—religious-inspired to white-supremacist to school shootings—has a media strategy. Media keeps cooperating.😡😡

      6 replies 277 retweets 503 likes
    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 May 2017
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      Putting panic videos on loop on TV or sharing gory pics has no news value, just horrifies people *and* encourages copycats. Shameful.

      2 replies 294 retweets 546 likes
    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 May 2017
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      There is nothing contested here that these videos help disprove, in which case one can have a difficult conversation on how much exposure.

      1 reply 32 retweets 106 likes
    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 May 2017
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      There are arguments for showing uncomfortable pics/videos. Exposing wrongdoing by authorities; highlighting ignored crisis. This is neither.

      2 replies 72 retweets 176 likes
    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 May 2017
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      When FBI went through mass killers' rooms, you know what they found?Troves of media coverage of previous ones. Inspires them and sets a bar.

      6 replies 427 retweets 799 likes
    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 May 2017
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      It's very difficult to stop people willing to die while killing—from school shootings to this—and as long as media cooperates, it escalates.

      3 replies 62 retweets 154 likes
    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 May 2017
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      Targeting children is part of this escalation cycle (like Sandy Hook). Terrorism and mass shootings are horrible, though very very rare.

      3 replies 50 retweets 134 likes
    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 May 2017
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      The ask isn't "don't cover the news." It's stop covering it as a media spectacle directed by the killers. Do it on *our* terms. Humane ones.

      6 replies 338 retweets 660 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 May 2017

      Look, I am just as horrified by such news as anyone else. My visceral reaction is no different, despite all my statistical leanings.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 May 2017
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          But it's 2017. We know how this goes. There are ways to cover this better—to modulate our response without shifting our anger or compassion.

          2 replies 45 retweets 177 likes
        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 May 2017
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          Don't say it can't be done. There were cycles of suicide contagion via media. CDC developed guidelines, media went along, dampened cycle.

          2 replies 43 retweets 180 likes
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