"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. Flanagan 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...
On these services, the killer knew, you often hit retweet, like or share before you realize just quite what you have done."http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/technology/personaltech/violence-gone-viral-in-a-well-planned-rollout-on-social-media.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0&referrer=
It's so real to think about this, how members of the media know how it works, know how to trigger something. Although I think there were a lot of lessons learned here, about the limits of our voyeurism. About autoplay
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