The assassination of health insurance chief executive Brian Thompson has been met with revelry on social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram. As one popular TikToker put it, “The populace reacted with, um, glee.” This blasé assessment received more than 400,000 views and 51,000 likes.
On social media platforms such as TikTok, Instagram and X, the celebration of this act of violence has gone mainstream. The once bright lines that constrained civil discourse – such as the immorality of murder – have dimmed.
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Daniel Cash is an associate at Encour and a law student at the Australian National University.
