In the 1999 thriller 8mm , Nicolas Cage plays a private detective who watches a graphic film of a girl’s murder. His character becomes obsessed with solving the crime. He watches the footage repeatedly, leaving him psychologically wrecked and prone to violence himself. As one character puts it: “There are some things you can’t unsee … the devil don’t change, the devil changes you .”

This week, millions of people — many unwittingly — saw the devil: A horrific video of 31-year-old conservative activist Charlie Kirk getting shot by an assassin’s bullet, his neck gushing with blood, while hosting a student event at Utah Valley University. The video instantly went viral across social media platforms, autoplaying for hours on X, in particular, to countless users casually scrolling their f

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