The ritualized rifling through old internet accounts usually muddies the story more than it informs the public.

It’s a weird headline, but the discussion is around how journalists and the public look through internet history in cases like this. Some of it is helpful, some of it is not.

In particular, it’s a response to this article:

‘Extremely ironic’: Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO slaying played video game killer, friend recalls (NBCNews)

The game in this case being AmongUs…

Monday night, NBC News published an article with the headline “’Extremely Ironic’: Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Slaying Played Video Game Killer, Friend Recalls.” This article is currently all over every single one of my social media feeds, because it is emblematic of the type of research I described above. It is a very bad article whose main reason for existing is the fact that it contains a morsel of “new” “information,” except the “information” in this case is that Luigi Mangione played the video game Among Us at some point in college.

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/72744

  • Garibaldee@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    woke: doom inspires acts of violence

    broke: call of duty inspires acts of violence

    bespoke: among us inspires acts of violence

    • PetteriPano@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      When I was a kid, we played pacman. A literal puck who eats pixels and takes turns chasing ghosts. We turned out fine.

      It’s not like that’s what caused us to go to rave parties, listen to beepy music and pop ecstacy pills.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Fact: %100 of serial killers have drank water.

    If we ban water for everyone, we can stop serial killers for once and all.

    • DABDA@lemm.eeEnglish
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      1 month ago

      From The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu:

      Later, other Adventists based their hatred of the human race on other foundations, not limited to issues such as the environment or warfare. Some raised their hatred to very abstract, philosophical levels. Unlike how they would be imagined later, most of them were realists, and did not place too much hope in the alien civilization they served either. Their betrayal was based only on their despair and hatred of the human race. Mike Evans gave the Adventists their motto: We don’t know what extraterrestrial civilization is like, but we know humanity.

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I played the game of Clue a couple of times. That too is a murder simulator and “how to cover your tracks” game.