Desmond Upton Patton was quoted in a USA Today article about the impacts of violence being recorded and shared online. “I’ve been having the same conversation for the last decade,” speaking about the impact of social media on mental health and violence. “We need to pay close attention to it, we need to devote resources to it, we need to study it, we need to intervene.”
USA Today: Livestreamed violence compounds America’s horror and inspires copycats, experts say. When will it stop?
