Social media has enabled residents to learn about the gross negligence that contributed to the current devastation.
For days, now, the wildfires ravaging Los Angeles have left behind scenes that can only be described as apocalyptic, like something out of Dante’s Inferno. These haunting, powerful images, once the province of print and broadcast media, now circulate freely on social media platforms like X, Facebook, and Instagram. In past emergencies, if you couldn’t find out something in the newspapers or on TV, you had to seek it out yourself; today, news and images spread across the globe in an instant, thanks to citizens documenting disasters in real time.
