“international network of online groups that have targeted thousands of children with a sadistic form of social media terror”

Link. “seek out children with mental health issues and blackmail them into hurting themselves on camera,”

If 1/100,000 of humanity is this broken that’s 80,000 people worldwide. They have always been with us, but enabling technologies give global reach and relative impunity. The same enabling technologies provide a rich pool of vulnerable people.

Childhood trauma and adult psychiatric illness in identical twins.

Link. ” …. those who reported one or more trauma in childhood — physical or emotional neglect or abuse, rape, sexual abuse, hate crimes or witnessing domestic violence — were 2.4 times as likely to be diagnosed with a psychiatric illness as those who did not…

… 52 percent [risk increase] for each additional adverse experience.”

I would have bet the effect would be far smaller. This is mind boggling.