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The UnitedHealthcare shooter got exactly what he wanted

It’s long been considered best practice to avoid elevating the ideas and image of an accused murderer. The latest has been turned into a celebrity.

Social media platforms generally scrubbed the profiles of people accused of high-profile killings; as recently as 2020, Facebook suppressed searches for “ Kyle Rittenhouse,” after he was charged with murder. One striking photo, taken for The New York Times, showed Mangione as the sole bright spot at the center of an otherwise dark photograph, haloed like a Renaissance portrait of a saint. A lawsuit accuses the company of “illegal deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) in place of real medical professionals to wrongfully deny elderly patients care owed to them under Medicare Advantage Plan.”

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