Brady Campaign unveils app to scrub mass killers' names from media sites

The house where Adam Lanza lived with his mother Nancy Lanza is seen in Newtown, Connecticut December 14, 2014. REUTERS/Adrees Latif/Files

BOSTON: US anti-gun-violence activists introduced a phone app designed to strip notorious mass shooters' names and photos from news stories, saying that keeping their images out of the public eye could help avert future mass killings. 

The Brady Campaign said the software, called Zero Minutes of Fame, is intended to address research that shows gunmen who carried out attacks in recent years at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut; at an Aurora, Colorado, movie theatre, and at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, had researched and possibly drawn inspiration from prior mass shootings.