After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogeyman: video games
Macron used the words "video games" and that makes him sound like a fool because the correlation between video games and actual violence is nil.<p>But, I do think he and other people are trying to make a point that there is a lot of content on the web which is horrifying, and sadly young people learn by example. Watching constant reels of people acting awful to each other desensitizes us against engaging in bad behavior.<p>IMHO, all the garbage videos I see of people doing "pranks" (which are often low grade violence against strangers) just make impressionable teens and young adults feel is is OK do engage in that sort of behavior - especially when it becomes gamified by getting Internet/social media points.<p>And this is where TikTok comes into play. Scott Galloway makes the argument that China is using TikTok to push a lot of this negative content into America with the effort to cause instability. They are also only pushing highly positive content inside China to bolster "healthy" social interaction.  I'm not sure I can say this is 100% truthful, but anecdotally it seems correct.