...with the rapid growth of social media, news has shifted toward platforms such as Twitter (now known as X), Facebook, Instagram, or Tik Tok, with 61% of Americans using these as their regular news source.2 Twitter particularly has become a source of real-time information, increasingly utilized by first responders and bystanders in mass shootings.3 Beyond breaking news and serving as a platform for discourse, Twitter may help expand upon existing data sources for firearm violence research, including improved reporting of marginalized populations of firearm victims, which have traditionally received less mainstream media attention.4 In turn, this may have ramifications for how firearm violence is researched, and education/prevention efforts are conducted. Interestingly, the COVID-19 pandemic's narrative, particularly regarding vaccination efforts and lockdown measures, serves as a cautionary tale of the risks associated with the ease of news dissemination on social media.8 The speed at which information is uploaded and shared via social media can reach a high volume of users, leading to news and information overload for the general public and inhibiting quality control historically seen with traditional news outlets.8,9 This is an important constraint that should be noted with increased adoption of social media as a reporting source of firearm violence. ...research is needed to ascertain whether social media is specifically helping to report firearm violence more accurately within marginalized populations, thereby addressing existing inequities.