Social media perpetuates, worsens youth gun violence, report says

Social media perpetuates, worsens youth gun violence, report says

Social media plays an outsized role in shootings impacting young people, a recent report shows.  Researchers at the University of Virginia conducted dozens of interviews with children and adults to better understand how gun violence impacts Virginians and explore the causes of youth and community gun violence in the state.  Their findings, published in November, included that social media plays a “a pervasive and insidious role” in community gun…