{"id":16689,"date":"2024-11-25T06:38:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T05:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/25\/you-get-desensitised-to-it-how-social-media-fuels-fear-of-violence\/"},"modified":"2024-11-25T06:38:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T05:38:04","slug":"you-get-desensitised-to-it-how-social-media-fuels-fear-of-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/25\/you-get-desensitised-to-it-how-social-media-fuels-fear-of-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018You get desensitised to it\u2019: how social media fuels fear of violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young people in Birmingham attest that violent content on apps is having a real-world impact<\/p>\n<p>It took about 90 seconds for Rianna Montaque to see violence on her X account: a fight in a restaurant that escalated into a full-on brawl with chairs smashed over heads and bodies sprawling.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cGang_Hits\u201d account has plenty more clips like that \u2013 shootings, beatings, people being run down by cars. It is part of a grim genre of content which is often promoted by algorithms so it pops up in young people\u2019s social media feeds unbidden.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/nov\/25\/social-media-uk-street-violence-birmingham\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/3d502f04397575e2ed5e440cf2e5f2ec5bd6b954\/0_0_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=484e3bde68e685733df16b52bb3cfe07\" title=\"\u2018You get desensitised to it\u2019: how social media fuels fear of violence\" \/>Young people in Birmingham attest that violent content on apps is having a real-world impact<br \/>\nIt took about 90 seconds for Rianna Montaque to see violence on her X account: a fight in a restaurant that escalated into a full-on brawl with chairs smashed over heads and bodies sprawling.<br \/>\nThe \u201cGang_Hits\u201d account has plenty more clips like that \u2013 shootings, beatings, people being run down by cars. It is part of a grim genre of content which is often promoted by algorithms so it pops up in young people\u2019s social media feeds unbidden. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young people in Birmingham attest that violent content on apps is having a real-world impact It took about 90 seconds for Rianna Montaque to see violence on her X account: a fight in a restaurant that escalated into a full-on brawl with chairs smashed over heads and bodies sprawling. The \u201cGang_Hits\u201d account has plenty more &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/25\/you-get-desensitised-to-it-how-social-media-fuels-fear-of-violence\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018You get desensitised to it\u2019: how social media fuels fear of violence<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}