In Washington and Silicon Valley, the incident crystallized growing concerns about the extent to which government and market forces have failed to check the power of social media. Nor is this the first time killers have used social media to deliver images of their crimes. But nobody before had staged a mass-casualty attack in a way so geared to spreading it virally across social media. Germany, for example, began enforcing a law last year that requires social media sites to remove instances of hate speech within 24 hours. “We’re past the point of ceding the benefit of the doubt to these tech companies.”

Source: Washington Post March 18, 2019 22:52 UTC