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

  • @[email protected]English
    85•2 months ago

    woke: doom inspires acts of violence

    broke: call of duty inspires acts of violence

    bespoke: among us inspires acts of violence

    • @PetteriPanoEnglish
      41•2 months ago

      When I was a kid, we played pacman. A literal puck who eats pixels and takes turns chasing ghosts. We turned out fine.

      It’s not like that’s what caused us to go to rave parties, listen to beepy music and pop ecstacy pills.

      • @Lost_My_MindEnglish
        18•2 months ago

        I saw that same T-Shirt at the mall in 2001.

      • @TrueStoryBobEnglish
        8•2 months ago

        When I was a kid, I played Civ 3… so I guess, according to cable news, I’d be seen as a genocidal maniac on par with Hitler.

        • @TORFdot0English
          8•2 months ago

          Funny you should mention that, the UHC killer killed 300 bugs in civ iv during his internship with the dev according to his resume.

          Expect a knock on your door from the FBI tonight

      • @jayboneEnglish
        6•2 months ago

        BITCH I’M EATING A GHOST RIGHT NOW

      • @WereCatEnglish
        2•2 months ago

        I’ve played Postal 2 extensively when I was 8y old and I only piss in peoples mouth at work. I don’t even remember when it was the last time I went shopping and burned some alive with a gasoline.