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

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Fact: %100 of serial killers have drank water.

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

    • 00L10@feddit.orgEnglish
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      12 days ago

      That’s taking it too far. To beat the bad guy with water we just need good guys with water.

    • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      12 days ago

      There are plenty of animals that have killed in cold blood. Some animals are evil assholes.

    • DABDA@lemm.eeEnglish
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      12 days 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.

  • style99@lemm.eeEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Funny, how much hand wringing is going on in the sweaty mainstream media about a guy who merely put down a vicious oligarchy-loving killer. You’d get the impression that media moguls are worried that they’re next.

    • DuckWrangler9000@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Funny, how much hand wringing is going on in the sweaty mainstream media about a guy who merely put down a vicious oligarchy-loving killer. You’d get the impression that media moguls are worried that they’re next.

      It’s a sign of the time that we’re living in. When people find joy in the death of others in a society, the quality of living is exceptionally bad. It’s reminiscent of Rome too where the last years of their society were filled with chaos

  • Garibaldee@lemm.eeEnglish
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    12 days ago

    woke: doom inspires acts of violence

    broke: call of duty inspires acts of violence

    bespoke: among us inspires acts of violence

  • selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Of course there’s only a small percent of Among Us players that will try to kill a CEO. Be grateful.

  • Gamerman153@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Hmmm, can’t tell if he was damn good as an imposter or bad as a crew… Could be a “completely justified” revenge killing! If only he could have played spy on TF2.

  • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
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    12 days ago

    deleted this comment and put the contents in the post body

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    12 days ago

    Ah yes, the continued trend of the media in the US to shit on gaming as the ills of society’s problems, because someone up the chain is scared it makes more than Hollywood slop

    • ysjet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      If you’ve noticed, they’re doing everything they can to make him look less attractive. Shitty aspect ratios, bad white balance, editing the picture, terrible focal lengths…

      They’re scared. It’s hilarious, because they’re so blatantly obviously scared.

    • Aabbcc@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Suicide watch uniform, I think. Have only seen it in one old photo so it might have just been that facility