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Is Fight Porn Destroying Us?

Mattha Busby contemplates the effects of absorbing constant, ambient doomscroll violence.

By Mattha Busby

October 15, 2026, 3:34pm

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Social Media, The Self-Destruction Issue, VICE Magazine

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