In 2017, for example, the sickening murder video of an elderly man in Ohio was uploaded to Facebook, and the torture of a man with disabilities in Chicago was livestreamed. There is a tragic and recent history of performance crime videos that use livestreaming and social media video services as part of their tactics. In an era of social media, which is driven in large part by spectacle, we all have a role to play in ensuring that terrorists aren’t rewarded for their crimes with our clicks. Nowadays, it’s much easier for someone to both create the spectacle of horrific violence and distribute it widely by themselves. In the past, terrorism functioned according to what has been called the “ theatre of terror”, which required the media to report on the spectacle of violence created by the group. That is, the video streaming is a central component of the violence itself, it’s not somehow incidental to the crime, or a disgusting trophy for the perpetrator to re-watch later. It is a form of violent “ performance crime”. The use of social media technology and livestreaming marks the attack as different from many other terrorist incidents.
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