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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

Mass shooters crave notoriety. Here’s how media plays a major role in that

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When a white supremacist armed with an arsenal of automatic weapons murdered 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch in 2019, he live-streamed the attack in the hopes his racist ideology would go global.

Speaking to the New Zealand Parliament four days later, prime minister Jacinda Ardern urged the nation to deny the terrorist the notoriety he had been seeking.

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