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Luigi Mangione Played 'Among Us,' Breathes Air (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It's a weird headline, but the discussion is around how journalists and the public look through internet history in cases like this. Some of it is helpful, some of it is not.

In particular, it's a response to this article:

'Extremely ironic': Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO slaying played video game killer, friend recalls (NBCNews)

The game in this case being AmongUs...

Monday night, NBC News published an article with the headline “’Extremely Ironic’: Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Slaying Played Video Game Killer, Friend Recalls.” This article is currently all over every single one of my social media feeds, because it is emblematic of the type of research I described above. It is a very bad article whose main reason for existing is the fact that it contains a morsel of “new” “information,” except the “information” in this case is that Luigi Mangione played the video game Among Us at some point in college.

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/72744

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you've noticed, they're doing everything they can to make him look less attractive. Shitty aspect ratios, bad white balance, editing the picture, terrible focal lengths....

They're scared. It's hilarious, because they're so blatantly obviously scared.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

It's hilarious because they are so obviously scared but at the same time it's terrifying because it will eventually work on most people.