Another terror attack began trending on social media this week alongside the Paris terrorist attacks: Garissa University. In a strange twist, outrage over the level of attention the Paris attacks was receiving resurrected seven-month-old news of the Al Shabab attack on a university that killed 148 people in northeast Kenya. The story rose to such prominence that an April 3 article on the attack hit the BBC’s most-viewed list Sunday, prompting many readers to think another attack had happened (or that it had just happened, since they missed it the first time). Most of that outrage, however, originated an ocean away from the...
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