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The sudden intrusion upon social media of videos depicting atrocity and murder has become more prevalent over the last couple of years, but why is this so? Does this constitute another (although extreme) form of spam? Is there also a social engineering element to this, in that it will attract people’s morbid curiosity and induce outrage, all of which results in computer traffic in the competition for our attention on the Internet?
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A pseudo-photograph is a picture that has been faked or is meant to portray a false impression. For example, paedophiles may create a pseudo picture in order to sexualise images of children.
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Owen, T., Noble, W., Speed, F.C. (2017). Something You Wish You Had Never Seen – Videos of Death & Murder on Facebook, You Tube and Other Media Platforms. In: New Perspectives on Cybercrime. Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53856-3_13
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