Social‑media‑accelerated State‑Violence Spiral

Social platforms can convert local incidents into moral panics that both pressure officials to use force and supply immediate public justification for lethal repression, creating a feedback loop where state violence and digital amplification mutually reinforce each other and erode liberal norms. — If unchecked, this dynamic makes episodic policing failures into durable political fractures that accelerate delegitimation of institutions and raise the risk of cyclical authoritarian responses.