TikTok users who would normally leap at the chance to identify an alleged criminal are standing down during the manhunt for the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
The Network Contagion Research Institute studies the spread of hostile ideological content. From an article linked in this article:
“We’ve identified highly engaged posts circulating the names of other healthcare CEOs and others celebrating the shooter," he said. "The framing of this incident as some opening blow in a class war and not a brutal murder is especially alarming.”
Alarming if you know you’d be in the firing line, in which case you have plenty of money with which to retire and do something good instead. The choice is yours.
The Network Contagion Research Institute studies the spread of hostile ideological content. From an article linked in this article:
Alarming if you know you’d be in the firing line, in which case you have plenty of money with which to retire and do something good instead. The choice is yours.
The framing of this incident as some opening blow in a class war is reflective of the feelings of the working class for some time now.
Here’s a neat graph
The fact that we’re only just now getting heads rolling is honestly surprising