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Uvalde school district was monitoring students' social media pages for threats against staff or site

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10853241/Uvalde-school-district-monitoring-students-social-media-pages-threats-against-staff-site.html

May 25, 2022

REVEALED: Uvalde school district was part of AI program that rooted out potential mass killers and monitored social media for threats and potential shooters

Texas school officials had been monitoring students' social media prior to the deadly shooting in Uvalde Tuesday - but failed to pick up on posts from gunman

As an 18th birthday present to himself earlier this month, now-deceased suspect Salvador Ramos bought two AR-style rifles and paraded them on social media

The ensuing massacre left 19 students aged under 11 and two adults dead

Before the rampage, Ramos reportedly also shot his 66-year-old grandmother

Uvalde School District officials say they had been monitoring its students' social media pages using an advanced AI-based service called Social Sentinel

The software is designed to find signs of potential harm in digital conversations

By Alex Hammer For Dailymail.Com

Published: 08:25 EDT, 25 May 2022 | Updated: 10:03 EDT, 25 May 2022

Texas school officials had been monitoring students' social media prior to the deadly shooting in Uvalde Tuesday, it has been revealed - but still failed to pick up on concerning posts from the teenage gunman in the days leading up to the tragedy.

As an 18th birthday present to himself earlier this month, now-deceased suspect Salvador Ramos bought two AR-style rifles and paraded them on social media - including in ominous messages sent hours before the killing started.

The teen's photo-op also saw him share an image to his since-scrubbed Instagram account, of him cradling the magazine of a rifle on his lap.

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