We both want and don’t want that content to be widely available. On the other hand, it can be critical evidence of what’s happened and in some cases it can shock people into changing their views. 'On the one hand, many or most people don’t want to see it. I n an apparent effort to ensure their heinous actions would go viral, a shooter who murdered at least 49 people in attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New. 'The entire genre of photos and videos of violent attacks is fraught with peril,' said Eric Goldman, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and co-director of the High Tech Law Institute. That concern was offset by some calls for the graphic images to be more widely distributed, a decades-old argument that has gained some renewed momentum in recent years around the gun control debate. 'Well I saw a significantly higher number of photos and videos of dead people from the most recent mass shooting in Texas on my For you page and timeline yesterday than I ever had seen before,' Hogg tweeted. David Hogg, a gun control advocate and Parkland shooting survivor, tweeted on Sunday (in response to a poll from Musk asking if he had succeeded in improving the platform in the last six months) that graphic images had been pushed into his 'For You' feed.
