Social Feeds Flatten Political Violence

When assassination footage appears between random street fights and soft‑porn clips in an infinite scroll, platforms dull moral salience by presenting all content as equivalent stimuli. This 'flattening effect' normalizes atrocity and blunts civic response by converting public tragedies into just another clip. — If platforms erase distinctions between democratic attacks and trivial content, society’s ability to process and respond to political violence degrades.