Inside Meta's Efforts to Prevent School Shootings

Inside Meta's Efforts to Prevent School Shootings Algorithmic social media, which has helped create the conditions for the spread of such violence, is reckoning with how it can be part of the solution. Larry Baimbridge spent thirty-one years with the Houston Police Department, including stints as a homicide detective and as commander of the team. In 2023, he took a job as chief of police for the Spring Branch Independent School District, most of which is within the city. The job was more low-key--no more shootouts with snipers--but it came with its own challenges. After the 2022 shooting in Uvalde, Texas, which left nineteen elementary-school students and two teachers dead, the state legislature had neglected to pass any meaningful restrictions on guns; instead, the state required that every school campus have an armed security officer.