Violence Gone Viral, in a Well-Planned Rollout on Social Media
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/technology/personaltech/violence-gone-viral-in-a-well-planned-rollout-on-social-media.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
The killings appear to have been skillfully engineered
for maximum distribution, and to sow maximum dread, over
Twitter, Facebook and mobile phones. The video Mr. Williams
shows is an up-close, first-person execution. It was posted only
after his social media accounts had become widely known, while
the police were in pursuit of the killer. And unlike previous
televised deaths, these were not merely broadcast, but widely
and virally distributed, playing out with the complicity of
thousands, perhaps millions, of social networking users who
could not help but watch and share.
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--Lauren--
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