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Can speech on social media incite violence?
Coverage of the El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, shootings has put a word into circulation: incitement. Can speech on a social media site, or a presidential platform, incite violence? It's time for a primer.
Providing examples dating back to 1594, the Oxford English Dictionary offers this definition: "action of inciting or rousing to action; an urging, spurring, or setting on; instigation, stimulation".
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