Oct. 27, Jared Schroeder, SMU Journalism professor with free press expertise, for a piece critical of social media platforms that fail to alert law enforcement agencies in a timely manner about threats of violence discovered on their platforms. Published in the Dallas Morning News: http://bit.ly/32UUvI9
. . We should expect more from social media companies when it comes to identifying and reporting dangerous threats.
Mass shooters have made posting threats and manifestos on social media a part of the playbook for their horrendous crimes.
The El Paso shooting suspect, who was in federal court earlier this month, posted a hate-spewing manifesto on 8chan before the attack. Soon after posting his missive, 22 people were killed and 24 more were injured. . .
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