The New Yorker · 26 Oct 2026
Can Social Media Help Stop School Shootings?
After the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999, an online fandom emerged, made up of teen-agers obsessed with the perpetrators. Twenty-seven years—and a devastating number of school shootings—later, algorithmic life has only accelerated the growth of this macabre community. And, over the past two years, multiple attacks in schools were committed by people with links to that online world.
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