Before Uvalde, a platform fails to answer kids' alarms
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Tech companies keep building systems to detect violent threats. Why didn't Yubo's work?
A week ago today, an 18-year-old man walked into an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and committed the latest in our nation’s never-ending series of senseless murders. And in the aftermath of that horror — 19 children dead, two teachers dead, 18 more injured — attention once again turned to what role platforms might have played in enabling the violence. This question can feel both urgently necessary and also somehow beside the point. Necessary because people (often teenagers) are constantly being arrested after making threats on social media , and the Uvalde case shows once again why those
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