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Bianca Devins, surrounded by hearts, in a picture she posted on Instagram in may

Like many other Young People her age, Bianca Devins lived her life online.

The 17-year-old had graduated recently from High School , and was Looking Forward to the Start of a psychology course at a community college, later this year.

As last Saturday approached, platform wrote on a gaming about how excited she was to be on the go, the 250-miles from upstate New York to a concert in Queens. But before she could return, on Sunday morning, Bianca was dead.

The exact relationship the accused had with The Man , to kill you, remains unclear. But in The Hours after his arrest, he appeared had shared graphic photos of the murder online.

In The Days since Her Story has spread all over The World - such as the violent images of her Death .

your murder being played out so publicly, is the latest case, on-the-spot control, how Social Media companies to police extreme content. Here, we explain how Bianca, the murder was shared and used online in The Hours and days after her Death .

"Here are the hell comes. It's redemption, isn't it?"

Brandon Andrew Clark asked this question from a rock song to his Instagram followers written in a temporary 24-hour-history, before the crack of dawn last Sunday.

The next image he shared was far more disturbing. A blurred photo with "I'm sorry Bianca" appeared to show a woman's bloody torso.

not to call Before then, his Instagram account, we have chosen, was mostly used to the catalog of selfies and posts about music and art. The Police believe that the 21-year-old had met Bianca there was advanced over the platform, two months earlier, and their relationship personally.

A quote from the 1999 film Fight Club (left) was also on the account, On Saturday, he went with Bianca to New York City of Utica, where she lived, to see Canadian singer Nicole Dollanganger perform. The Police said they believed the couple had got into an argument on the way back, perhaps via your kissing Someone Else , and he had a fatal grip them with a knife.

The Police said The Suspect , together with an even more graphic photo of Bianca's body, the Discord - a popular messaging platform for gamers. This image showed the extent of the injuries to Bianca's neck and made it clear, you deadly to have been made.

Screenshots from the Now deleted private chat on Discord , used apparently by the friends of Bianca, a card he shared The Image at about 06:00.

As concerned friends scrambled to find out whether the photo was real, the suspects continue to post offensive content in The Group . Members then took screen grabs of the messages and of its Snapchat account, and raised The Alarm .

07:20, Utica police had received "numerous" calls, even from other US States, about the disturbing posts. The Police said The Suspect had also called 911 himself, and "incriminating statements" about his actions.

When an officer followed him to a wooded area at the end of a residential street, he stabbed himself in the neck. He laid down on a tarp, police said, he got over Bianca's body, while taking and posting more photos online.

After a brief struggle, The Suspect was arrested and taken to a hospital. A Day later, after Emergency Surgery , he was charged with Bianca's murder.

As the news of the murder spread instagram has not confirmed if they received The First reports of the violent image on the suspicion of public history. But when on Sunday about Bianca's social group, for The Most part, rolled to spread the word started, of which marred by misinformation.

Sunday evening, users had started to Twitter, to talk and re-share the Instagram posts. Other users have pleaded with People to avoid to look at its history, and report the account.

From the beginning, users said that their reporting of the trials were rejected, did not violate Instagram terms. If approached, say by the BBC, Instagram, as long as the original contributions to remain at The Suspect 's story was, But the screenshots suggest, you had the public for More Than 20 hours.

Dr James Densley , a professor of criminal law in Minnesota, said that this type of public violence is carried, The Risk of secondary trauma for the viewers, and also re-sacrifice Bianca itself.

"We have this term for People who rest in peace," he told the BBC. "So, really, you can't, because you live in this kind of eternal infamy online, every Time your image is shared. "

The First People >to discuss the murder were the users of the website 4Chan - a barely-moderated internet message Board with the title and topic of discussion, where users can anonymously post. Both he, as well as the even more extreme website 8chan, have published in the last few years for the increasingly radical rhetoric, some of the users and their links to a series of deadly attacks.

in Front of 51 People in two Christchurch mosques in March, is a Manifesto in the alleged gunman's name released 8chan has been shot. He also has live Streaming of the recordings on Facebook, tell the audience at the beginning of The Attack on the "Subscribe to PewDiePie". This ironic Memes , a popular YouTuber, also seems to have been suspect from the Utica, after he published pictures of Bianca's murder, Discord .

These and other opinions of the Utica suspect during The Attack , the language of rang is used in these extreme online communities, Robert Evans , an investigative journalist who specializes in radicalization online, told the BBC.

says The Suspect and Bianca, used 4Chan in The Past . Users on the forum on Sunday celebrated "another 4Chan murder" and discussed her Death in the offensive and misogynist terms, to accuse the victims, and even Photoshop, the graphic pictures of her in a sadistic meme.

- People #RIPBianca share positivity online-after her Death - including works of art, Evans said, violent images and language were on of the "very often" to these platforms. He compared the way that some of the Young Men were radical on these websites, how terrorist groups recruit.

"All you have to do is the shotgun from propaganda, in The Hope to do that a few times in the year, an individual is enough commitment and hatred is in your heart," he told the BBC.

He believes that the law enforcement need to take radicalisation on these sites more seriously.

"I don't think that would be said with proliferating in a place like 8chan," he said.

"But at the same Time , The Internet is what it is. And I don't know how you could police every dark little corner. This is a very 21St Century Problem - and it is also a roadmap to solve it. "

Dr. Densley said these websites have gather to a place where otherwise "Lost Souls " are able to.

"These are the views that would be offensive in polite society drastically," he told the BBC. "I think it's because it's an echo chamber, talk to these People and amp with each other. "

Monday, The Police confirmed the pictures of Bianca real goods, the case was already spilled from the edges of The Internet into mainstream Social Media . For hours #RIPBianca on Twitter in the United States.

As the story increasingly, some People tried, inevitably, to search for the accounts and pictures that are mentioned on their news feeds. With this attention, The Number of Bianca Instagram followers ball began to snow.

The Teenager had a heavy internet user, But some news agencies overestimate dramatically the scale of their following. Lurid headlines described the murder of a "Instagram influencers" or used the often derogatory and misogynistic term "e-girl" to describe them.

In reality, Bianca had only about 2,000 followers on its main Instagram account, before the news of the killing went viral, according to tracking site social blade. But in the week since, The Number increased to More Than 160,000.

the numbers of The trailer to Bianca's Now -memorialised accounts continue to grow, and The Suspect account also attracted to attraction. In spite of his or her profile to be edited, to reflect on his suicidal intentions at some point during The Attack , Instagram does not disable it, until The Police , his identity was confirmed Monday, More Than A Day after the murder. By the Time his fan base had grown by thousands, and his profile was flooded with comments.

Some People capitalized Bianca murder, the already played, so publicly, as a Chance to win a pendant. Comments such as: "follow ME!! & DM! me for the full video-and image - " have spammed The Suspect contributions. Dozens of users promised, the pictures were hidden from your body, in your private pages. Others tried to cheat, to see the People , sell the cruel meme, or even the products you tried.

Some even went so far as to change his user name, or generate a mimic brand-new-accounts, to The Suspect handle, and entice People to search for the photos.

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Source of news: bbc.com