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

  • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    22 hours 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

  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
    37·
    23 hours ago

    Did prosecutors seriously talk about among us like it is this game that only psychos play? The game is fun! In fact I think I am gonna play it tonight!

      • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        20 hours ago

        I don’t play the game very often, but it is a fun game. Even more fun when I am the imposter! Normally I get assigned the boring task as being a regular deck hand.

  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1262·
    1 day ago

    Fact: %100 of serial killers have drank water.

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

    • kaitco@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      1 day ago

      What about just banning dihydrogen monoxide? That stuff kills 100% of those who consume it and is, like, everywhere!

      • TrueStoryBob@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        23 hours ago

        It’s used in everything from pesticides to baby formula… when are people going to wake up to the dangers it poses?

        • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          14 hours ago

          Seriously, do you have any idea how bad it would be for the economy if we did that? You guys wants us becoming as poor as europeans?? Look you have to let the free market decide which chemicals do and don’t go into your body. If I were a grandmother I would gladly drown in dihydrogen monoxide just so my children could work more hours in the excel factory. It’s what Adam Smith would have wanted!

    • 00L10@feddit.orgEnglish
      20·
      1 day ago

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

  • style99@lemm.eeEnglish
    482·
    1 day 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
      24·
      1 day 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
    79·
    1 day ago

    woke: doom inspires acts of violence

    broke: call of duty inspires acts of violence

    bespoke: among us inspires acts of violence

    • DABDA@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      23 hours 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.

    • otp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      31·
      23 hours ago

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