Ferguson insisted that the debate about video-game violence will live on as long as there are video games to play and researchers to study them. “But the evidence is very clear that there’s not a relationship between violent video games and violence in society. There’s not evidence of a correlation, let alone a causation,” he said. Other researchers have come to the same conclusion, and the American Psychological Association’s media-psychology division issued a public statement in 2017 discouraging politicians and journalists from connecting games and violence. In his own recent studies on longitudinal behavior, Ferguson and his collaborators have concluded that violent games don’t appear to predict anything useful about violent thoughts or acts—not physical aggression, social aggression, or even cyberbullying.

Source: The El Paso Shooting and Video Games as a Partisan Issue – The Atlantic

This article by Ian Bogost is published and written urgently after the white-suprematist shooting in El Paso, Texas, earlier this week. It lays out the history of the moral panic and it presents outcomes from an interview with researcher, Ferguson.