Livestreamed carnage: Tech’s hard lessons from mass killings

Photo caption: A person pays his respects outside the scene of a shooting at a supermarket, in Buffalo, N.Y., Sunday, May 15, 2022. Photo credit: AP Photo / Matt Rourke. Article by Barbara Ortutay, Haleluya Hadero and Matt O’Brien. AP News – May 16, 2022.

These days, mass shooters like the one now held in the Buffalo, New York, supermarket attack don’t stop with planning out their brutal attacks. They also create marketing plans while arranging to livestream their massacres on social platforms in hopes of fomenting more violence. Sites like Twitter, Facebook and now the game-streaming platform Twitch have learned painful lessons from dealing with the violent videos that often accompany such shootings. […]

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