Think Before You Tweet In the Wake of an Attack

Published: May 25, 2017, 8:59 a.m.

Monday night, a suicide bomber took the lives of at least 22 people\u2014including an 8-year-old girl\u2014at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. Almost instantly, images and video of the devastating attack overtook Twitter timelines and Facebook News Feeds. As natural and understandable a response to horrific events that might be, it also threatens to amplify the chaos that terrorists intend.