Following the mass shooting this year in Buffalo, Gov. Kathy Hochul and Attorney General Letitia James are urging legislators to punish those who make and distribute videos of extreme violence. Source: New York Times
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Livestreams of Mass Shootings: From Buffalo to New Zealand
By Gotham Rex on May 19, 2022
Dozens of recordings of a 2019 massacre in Christchurch, New Zealand, remain online, in a sobering reminder of the internet’s permanence. Source: New York Times
Before the Buffalo Shooting Began, Suspect Invited Others to Review Plans on Discord.
By Gotham Rex on May 17, 2022
The man accused of killing 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket permitted a small group to join his private chatroom about 30 minutes before the massacre. Source: New York Times
The Internet, Social Media and Extremism
By Gotham Rex on August 6, 2019
The Internet, Social Media and Extremism Andrew Marantz, editorial staffer at The New Yorker and the author of the forthcoming Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation (Viking, 2019) talks about the role social media is playing…