Texas Shooting: How Social Media Repeatedly Fail to Spot Trail of Hints Left by Gunmen
The warning signs were there for anyone to stumble upon, days before the 18-year-old gunman entered a Texas elementary school on Tuesday, slaughtering 19 children and two teachers.There was the Instagram photo of a hand holding a gun magazine, a TikTok profile that warned, “Kids be scared,” and the image of two AR-style semi-automatic rifles displayed on a rug, pinned to the top of the killer's Instagram profile.Shooters are leaving digital trails that hint at what's to come long before they actually pull the…