Insurance executive’s murder sparks online praise and hate
In what at least one scholar is describing as a concerning indication of radicalization among certain elements of the American populace, tens of thousands of people have shown support or sympathy for the death of UnitedHealthcare's CEO on social media.
People sometimes question why we want these execs dead, because they wroteA few hours after the CEO, 50-year-old Brian Thompson, was shot dead in Manhattan by a man brandishing a silenced pistol, Taylor Lorenz, a former journalist for the New York Times and Washington Post, wrote a post on BlueSky. Lorenz later added, "No, that doesn't mean people should murder them," in response to criticism.
Within hours following the murder, Rutgers University's Network Contagion Research Institute found thousands of posts that were identical. More than 8...