Social Media Is Making Us Numb to Tragedy
Is the collective horror of the world’s tragedies diminishing the weight of each individual crisis?
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7 min readMar 28, 2019
In 1999, two teenagers killed 13 people and injured 24 others in what was the third most closely followed piece of news in the entire decade. At the time, it was the deadliest school shooting in U.S. history and it utterly…
