The Social Media Response to Nice Was Heartbreakingly Familiar

Once again, people around the world are using social media to express shock and outrage and offer condolences and help over a terrorist attack.

In what has become a heartbreaking routine—employed during the Paris attacks of 2015, as well as after recent terrorist attacks in such places as Belgium and Istanbul — people shared emotional memes in solidarity with the city of Nice, where 84 people were killed by a truck driver barrelling into the crowd on the Promenade des Anglais.