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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] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

People should really read the article. It feels like I'm reading broken records in these discussions because people take a headline, refuse to read what the article has to say, and then say "but what about x?" When the article has a section literally dedicated to say, how social media can contribute to rising violence in the presence of easy gun access. Like that's literally a component of the thesis here.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

This, the very first sentence of the article describes social media as an accelerant rather than a root cause too