Graphics videos of Charlie Kirk’s assassination attempt Last week, they spread like weeds over social media in a way that it made it arduous for the youngest online to avoid bloodshed.
From Autoplay to X to friends who share the film material in group chats, both teenage people saw the conservative leaders in a way that leads to renewed demands for online security laws and lessons of schools for the treatment of graphic social media content.
Kelly Benjamin, mother of two children who have been working in the media and technology for years, said she had learned from Kirk’s attack by her daughter, a second year in the high school, who came home and announced the news and said she had already seen.
“As a parent, it is terrible that your child says that it is already so terrible that someone dies that day. And of course I am concerned about the effects of children who see this kind of violence and are demonstrated, since it is traumatized by him, and it is simply available,” said Benjamin.
The videos were Almost inevitable For everyone with a social media account a week ago on Wednesday, when several perspectives were written online by Kirk online, some versions were even slowed down to be detailed.
Mobile phone bans in schools held at least a few students from seeing the killing immediately, but younger Americans were Kirk’s target groupAnd many, if not most users on social media, were fatally turned the next day before class.
“Firstly, we all have to denounce political violence. Second, we have to commit to off-ramps and de-escalation as a de-escalation [Utah] Governor Spencer Cox – and every former US president – has pushed. It does not help that social media platforms made it possible to circulate Charlie Kirks’s graphic video, how to circulate a running fire, with the kind approval of the same algorithms that are responsible for the harmful mental health of the children, ”said Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers.
Kimberley Cantu, a superintendent of the Mansfield Independent School District in Texas, has experience in experience in getting her students through traumatic experiences, including a shooting of 2021 at school. Cantu said that the students’ reactions to the Kirk video did not make it that far, but she suspects that there were some of the events that have to struggle with the events.
“We have great support systems for advising our traditional school advisors. We have crisis consultants who can help these children at Campus level and bring them the help they need,” said Cantu.
“We have districts of crisis consultants that we can send to this campus to receive support. We also have behavioral intervention teams and we have people in the teams who can go out, and we have someone who works with teachers how to deal with such situations,” she added.
In the meantime, in Chula Vista, California, an AP government teacher Reports reported disciplined For the display of a Kirk attack videos in the classroom.
Benjamin said that their daughter’s teachers did not address the Kirk videos directly, but they were a topic of discussion among the students.
“There was no communication or any kind of conversation that happened in any way in her school in any way. I don’t think she really had some kind of classroom experience. But where it happens is with her friends and they talk about it,” she said.
Legislators were horrified by the film material and demanded that it was removed from platform X, where videos were automatically changed in the settings without any change.
“I call @elonmusk, @finkd and @tektok_us to remove the terrible videos from Charlie Kirks Mord. He has a family, little children, and nobody should be forced to experience this tragedy online again,” wrote Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.).
The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is an Avenue members of the Congress failed in 2024 Due to concerns about the effects of freedom of speech.
“While Educators and Students’ Parents Have Engaged Young People in Conversations Around What They’ve Seen and How They Feel About IT, We can’t Protect Kids from Inappropriate Content If Platforms Don’t Invest in Curbing Its Spread. Happens When Abandon Meaningful Regulation, which is one of the Many Reasons We’ve Supported Bell -to -Bell Cellphone Bans and Commonsense Legislative Guardrails to Put to End to the Platforms’ Ignorance and more, including the repayment of the legal compensation, so We can ensure the accountability obligation, ”said Weingarten.
Experts say that it is crucial for schools and parents to achieve these terrible events that students will inevitably see on social media
“We strive to teach children different components, such as how to switch off Autoplay so that they do not have everywhere everywhere with the infinite scroll everywhere. And then we show how to report a contribution or mute and why that is important,” said Lisa O’Masta, CEO of Learning.com, a company that prepares the students with digital skills.
“And really helping the students not necessarily to stop everything that comes to them, but when they see such pictures of what they can do,” she added. “How can you stop, have a 10 -second break before you share something that is emotionally charged, how you can actually curate some of these feeds and not to follow some of these low trustworthy resources and set serious priorities.”
