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The Digital Asymmetry of the Christchurch Shootings

An act of terror by a few overshadows — online and off — a global youth protest against climate change

Photo: Marty Melville/AFP/Getty

OnOn Friday morning in Christchurch, New Zealand, scores of students walked out of their classrooms. Inspired by the example of the 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who last August began regularly…

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Bryan Walsh

Bryan Walsh

Journalist, author, dad. Former TIME magazine editor and foreign correspondent. Author of END TIMES, a book about existential risk and the end of the world.

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