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Why top internet sleuths say they won't help find the UnitedHealthcare CEO killer
"The CEO of United Health got clipped this morning. I can't wait for the spin on this one. An obviously organized hit but by whom?"
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[...]Bullets fired at UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson had words written on them, officials say
Bullets that an unidentified gunman used to shoot and kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday morning had words written on them, CBS News has confirmed.
P - The words "deny," "defend" and "depose" appeared on shell casings recovered from the scene of the shooting in New York City, according to law enforcement officials. The officials said they are examining whether the words relate to a possible motive involving insurance companies and their responses to claims. ABC News first reported this information.
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[...]Health insurers remove executive bios, images from websites after UnitedHealthcare CEO killing
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TikTok users who would normally leap at the chance to identify an alleged criminal are standing down
during the manhunt for the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
[...]
Although Sparks, 34, has been tapped by law enforcement in the past to help train officers on how to find suspects online, according to emails seen by NBC News, she said this time she isn’t interested in helping police.
Sparks, who also works in health care as a lactation consultant and holds a doctorate of pharmacy, didn’t mince words when asked if her community was working to find the suspect in Thompson’s murder.
“Absolutely the f--- not,” she said.
Another popular TikTok sleuth, thatdaneshguy, who has 2 million followers on the platform, made a video that was critical of the health care industry, saying that he wouldn’t try to identify the killer. “I don’t have to encourage violence. I don’t have to condone violence by any means. But I also don’t have to help,” he said.
That attitude among some content creators comes amid amplified attention on frustrations with medical care in the U.S. in the wake of the killing.
A Gallup poll released Friday found that Americans believe health care quality is at a 24-year low. Those polled said health care coverage is even worse, with 54% saying it’s fair or poor.
Online sleuths have helped the FBI identify hundreds of Capitol rioters and catch previously arrested Jan. 6 defendants committing crimes that the bureau’s own review had missed, in one case even finding evidence of a Proud Boy assaulting an officer in the middle of his seditious conspiracy trial.
And when Gabby Petito, 22, went missing as she documented her cross-country travels on social media with her fiancé, online sleuths jumped into action. It was later determined that Petito was killed by her fiancé Brian Laundrie, who died by suicide.
At least one person who did try to help find Thompson’s killer was criticized on X, formerly known as Twitter, for doing so.
In a viral post, Riley Walz, a software engineer, said he was “fairly confident” about where the shooter fled to on a bike after scouring data from the Citi Bike’s bikeshare program. He said he shared the information with the police.
But a source close to Lyft, which operates Citi Bike, later said the NYPD told the company directly that the incident did not involve the bikeshare program.
Walz declined to comment Friday. Since his post, some X users have called him a “snitch.” McWhorter, or TikTok’s TizzyEnt, said backlash toward those who did try to help might cause others to not want to step in.
“If you’re seeing it in such a groundswell, I have to imagine that factors into some people’s decision,” he said.
But mostly, McWhorter said, “there’s this weird thing, this vibe of like, I don’t see a bunch of people just feeling an urgency.”
McWhorter posted his first video about the incident Friday evening. The roughly two-minute video was about “how much people don’t care.”
Sukrit Venkatagiri, an assistant professor of computer science at Swarthmore College, said many people feel a lack of connection with a wealthy CEO.
“They don’t really empathize with who the victim is in this scenario,” Venkatagiri said.
Venkatagiri, who has studied the harms of misinformation and disinformation as well as crowd sourcing investigations, said, anecdotally, he has seen less talk of finding Thompson’s killer on spaces like the subreddit r/Reddit Bureau of Investigations, an online sleuthing page on Reddit that claims it is “using the power of the internet to solve real-world problems.”
“People are less motivated, from an altruistic perspective, to help this victim in this specific case,” Venkatagiri said.
[...]
Investigators believe the shooter may have traveled to New York City from Atlanta last month by bus,
three senior law enforcement officials familiar with the case told NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/internet-sleuths-say-wont-help-find-unitedhealthcare-ceo-suspect-rcna183228
"The CEO of United Health got clipped this morning. I can't wait for the spin on this one. An obviously organized hit but by whom?"
Related:
[...]Bullets fired at UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson had words written on them, officials say
Bullets that an unidentified gunman used to shoot and kill UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson on Wednesday morning had words written on them, CBS News has confirmed.
P - The words "deny," "defend" and "depose" appeared on shell casings recovered from the scene of the shooting in New York City, according to law enforcement officials. The officials said they are examining whether the words relate to a possible motive involving insurance companies and their responses to claims. ABC News first reported this information.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175483804
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175490687
[...]Health insurers remove executive bios, images from websites after UnitedHealthcare CEO killing
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=175491869
TikTok users who would normally leap at the chance to identify an alleged criminal are standing down
during the manhunt for the killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
[...]
Although Sparks, 34, has been tapped by law enforcement in the past to help train officers on how to find suspects online, according to emails seen by NBC News, she said this time she isn’t interested in helping police.
Sparks, who also works in health care as a lactation consultant and holds a doctorate of pharmacy, didn’t mince words when asked if her community was working to find the suspect in Thompson’s murder.
“Absolutely the f--- not,” she said.
Another popular TikTok sleuth, thatdaneshguy, who has 2 million followers on the platform, made a video that was critical of the health care industry, saying that he wouldn’t try to identify the killer. “I don’t have to encourage violence. I don’t have to condone violence by any means. But I also don’t have to help,” he said.
That attitude among some content creators comes amid amplified attention on frustrations with medical care in the U.S. in the wake of the killing.
A Gallup poll released Friday found that Americans believe health care quality is at a 24-year low. Those polled said health care coverage is even worse, with 54% saying it’s fair or poor.
Online sleuths have helped the FBI identify hundreds of Capitol rioters and catch previously arrested Jan. 6 defendants committing crimes that the bureau’s own review had missed, in one case even finding evidence of a Proud Boy assaulting an officer in the middle of his seditious conspiracy trial.
And when Gabby Petito, 22, went missing as she documented her cross-country travels on social media with her fiancé, online sleuths jumped into action. It was later determined that Petito was killed by her fiancé Brian Laundrie, who died by suicide.
At least one person who did try to help find Thompson’s killer was criticized on X, formerly known as Twitter, for doing so.
In a viral post, Riley Walz, a software engineer, said he was “fairly confident” about where the shooter fled to on a bike after scouring data from the Citi Bike’s bikeshare program. He said he shared the information with the police.
But a source close to Lyft, which operates Citi Bike, later said the NYPD told the company directly that the incident did not involve the bikeshare program.
Walz declined to comment Friday. Since his post, some X users have called him a “snitch.” McWhorter, or TikTok’s TizzyEnt, said backlash toward those who did try to help might cause others to not want to step in.
“If you’re seeing it in such a groundswell, I have to imagine that factors into some people’s decision,” he said.
But mostly, McWhorter said, “there’s this weird thing, this vibe of like, I don’t see a bunch of people just feeling an urgency.”
McWhorter posted his first video about the incident Friday evening. The roughly two-minute video was about “how much people don’t care.”
Sukrit Venkatagiri, an assistant professor of computer science at Swarthmore College, said many people feel a lack of connection with a wealthy CEO.
“They don’t really empathize with who the victim is in this scenario,” Venkatagiri said.
Venkatagiri, who has studied the harms of misinformation and disinformation as well as crowd sourcing investigations, said, anecdotally, he has seen less talk of finding Thompson’s killer on spaces like the subreddit r/Reddit Bureau of Investigations, an online sleuthing page on Reddit that claims it is “using the power of the internet to solve real-world problems.”
“People are less motivated, from an altruistic perspective, to help this victim in this specific case,” Venkatagiri said.
[...]
Investigators believe the shooter may have traveled to New York City from Atlanta last month by bus,
three senior law enforcement officials familiar with the case told NBC News.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/internet-sleuths-say-wont-help-find-unitedhealthcare-ceo-suspect-rcna183228
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