Last Friday night Paris was rocked by multiple terror attacks. By Saturday morning Facebook was awash with profile pictures overlaid with the French flag in solidarity with a city in mourning. What followed, as has now become common in a global news cycle permeated by social media, were questions about how the media prioritises one global disaster over another. Where were the affirmations of solidarity for the victims of the twin suicide bombings that ripped through Beirut the day before? Paris was described as a “warzone” in the hours after the co-ordinated attacks, but how did people react to the news in countries where the threat of terror and violence have become the norm? The reaction...
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