Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Web Roundup: Autoplaying Traumatic Videos
Wednesday , a TV anchor and her cameraman were murdered on live television and the shooting was also captured by the killer, who then uploaded the footage to his Facebook and Twitter accounts. The video made its way into many people’s social media feeds, and started playing automatically. We look at the dark side of autoplay.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readWednesday, a TV anchor and her cameraman were murdered on live television and the shooting was also captured by the killer, who then uploaded the footage to his Facebook and Twitter accounts. The video made its way into many people’s social media feeds, and started playing automatically. We look at the dark side of autoplay.
