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How Social Media Is Warping People’s Relationship With Violence

Real violence shared widely on social media as entertainment is desensitizing America’s youth, experts warn.

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How Social Media Is Warping People’s Relationship With Violence
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By Petr Svab
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September 26, 2025Updated:September 30, 2025

Easy access to an endless stream of violence, combined with encouragement of violence on social media, is distorting people’s attitudes toward it, an issue that is difficult to solve through automation, according to experts.

Violence has always been a part of the human experience but has never been available in such quantities for entertainment, they said.

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