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Every time a journalist gets murdered for doing their job, there is performative surprise. Performative hand-wringing. Performative calls to action.

"How could it have happened?!"

Well, this is how this happens.

One of the most powerful, and most petty, of men in this world broadcasts to his hundreds of millions of followers, many of them armed, many of them radicalized by the platform he owns, that a specific journalist needs to be murdered for her work.

Mark this moment.