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: Research should prioritize the "Papageno Effect"—promoting resources and stories of hope—over graphic descriptions.
: Define the incident and its significance in the history of social media moderation.
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," and in various videos that she had been physically and sexually abused by a family member. Following her death, Polk County authorities launched an investigation into these allegations. Feminism and Religion Media and Online Impact In Memoriam: Katelyn Nicole Davis by Stephanie Arel
Katelyn Nicole Davis, known online by the pseudonym "ITSNYXX," was a 12-year-old girl from Cedartown, Georgia. Like many children her age in late 2016, she used social media to find community and express herself. She was an active blogger and frequent user of Live.me, a live-streaming platform popular with teenagers at the time.
The event pressured apps like Live.me and Facebook Live to implement stricter AI-driven monitoring and "report" features for real-time broadcasts [3].
