Controversy Surrounding Texas Shooting Images and Gun Debate Intensifies.

Twitter is facing criticism for allowing graphic images of a mass shooting at a mall in Texas to spread virally across the platform after the shooting on Saturday. The unusually graphic nature of the images drew sustained outcry from users and threw a harsh spotlight on Twitter’s content moderation practices, which have been curtailed since Elon Musk acquired the company last year. Unlike newspaper and magazine publishers, tech companies like Twitter must enforce their decisions on a huge scale, policing millions of users with a combination of automated systems and human content moderators.