Shaquon Thomas’s fate has befallen thousands of other young men across the United States. His hometown of Chicago has famously become the epicenter of a new kind of battle that we would call “war” in any other nation. Indeed, more people were killed by gang violence in 2017 in Chicago than in all U.S. special operations forces across a decade’s worth of fighting in Iraq and then Syria. At the center of the strife is social media. “Most of the gang disputes have nothing to do with drug sales, or gang territory, and everything to do with settling personal scores,” explains Chicago alderman Joe
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