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How Social Media Apps Could Be Fueling Homicides Among Young Americans (www.propublica.org)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Are homicides up in the rest of the developed world among youths? I feel that here in Australia, while we have our own fair share of domestic issues, it doesn't seem anywhere near as widespread that Aussie youths murders/homicides are higher than say, 10 or 20 years ago.

I don't have any sources for that, I am writing this up five minutes before I go to sleep, but I think it's a potential talking point, and if data does corroborate with my hunches on this, maybe it's not the social media alone and maybe something USA does differently? Maybe the lax gun control?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

The article doesn't claim it's social media alone. In fact the headline doesn't either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Oh for sure, the US is totally cooked when judged by most important metrics