An opinion piece on the damaging effects of social media, using Dan Bilzerian’s footage of the Las Vegas Strip massacre as a starting point of argument.

On October 1, while thousands of revellers were enjoying themselves at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip. Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old retiree, locked himself in a hotel room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and began shooting.

Paddock murdered 59 people and injured over 500, before killing himself.

One of the people at the scene was Dan Bilzerian. We know this because as bullets began bringing people down, Bilzerian took out his phone, and started filming the incident for Instagram.