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Mass shooting videos are still going viral

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🗓️ 20 May 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Companies are getting better at responding to incidents like the Buffalo shooting. It’s still not nearly good enough. Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary explains. Read Shirin’s story: https://www.vox.com/recode/23106012/buffalo-shooting-viral-video-social-media-facebook-twitter-murder Today’s episode was produced by Taylor Maycan, engineered by Melissa Pons (Hemlock Creek Productions) and hosted by Adam Clark Estes. Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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On Saturday in Buffalo, New York, we saw an all-too-familiar and all-too-american tragedy unfold.

0:48.6

In this case, a young white man walked into a grocery store in a mostly black

1:01.9

neighborhood and started shooting. Targeting people just doing their usual

1:06.3

weekend errands for their families. This is the worst nightmare that any

1:12.6

community can face. Many of them are sad. They're angry. They're filled with anger,

1:19.6

trying to understand why this happened. We're learning more about the

1:22.8

victims in this case. Ten people died. Three were hurt. Eleven of them were black.

1:28.3

What do we tell our father? We don't even know. He doesn't know. What do we tell

1:33.4

them? How do we tell them the level of his life? His primary caretaker. The

1:39.0

person who kept him alive for the last eight years. How do we tell them that

1:43.3

he's gone? Not just that he's gone, but he's gone at the hands of a white

1:51.2

supremacist, a motorist, of an evil person. And even worse, the gunman tried to

2:01.6

live stream the entire attack. This is a textbook move for killers. Fame is an

2:07.1

incentive. They want to see their hateful ideas go viral. And social media

2:11.2

companies don't have a strong track record of stopping them. But this time in

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