Seems like this to me. Has something to do with newscycle manipulation, beyond that who knows. It's obvious they at the very least encourage these acts. For instance, they never show people who run onto the field or court during a live sporting event because they know it is attention seeking behavior. Yet in the instance of something much worse than incentivising the disruption of sporting events, the deaths of people, they are hellbent on making sure that everyone in the English speaking world knows the name and face of spree killers.
WIth the amount of mental illness going round these days, it wouldn't be that difficult to trigger certain personality types remotely by manipulating computers or phones etc. This all sounds so fantastical to people(probably not here), but it's a real thing. Most people I know are hypnotised by the newscycle itself. I mean literally. I can have a conversation with them about how certain events aren't being covered honestly, and they'll agree in the moment, but it doesn't stick. They just forget and I'll come up against the same resistance the very next week.
Probably because there are two parts to the coverage of these events. The first is the event itself. The second is meta coverage of how the event is being interpreted. That is:
Week one:
"Gunman kills 8 in senseless subway murder"
Week two:
"FACTCHECK: No, the subway gunman wasn't working for the Illuminati."
They get week one. Speak with me. Then get week two, and think I was talking about the Illuminati. Which I might add, I do kind of believe have left a lasting legacy in what can be called 'information authorities' of the industrial era.
Seems they are trying to render society with a multiple personality order. The truth always being out there, somewhere, in some third alternative reality beyond the dialectic. Meaning that if you discover the truth, you can no longer function in the world, so just fall in line with the lies anyway. Smile and nod your way through life.
Big picture, maybe they want to show people chaos so they accept order in whatever form it is offered in. I mean, at some point, appeal to authority is actually appealing even to those who know better, if you can no longer function in the world because you can't even agree on the definition of the words used to discuss disagreements. It is very stressful and i understand why some just give up, consciously or not, and just bow down to the big black boot and call it god, just because the one thing they can know is true, is that it stomps you.