Tales from the Las Vegas massacre transfixed social media audiences this week. Here are just a few stories.
Two different definitions of terrorism
Global Toronto anchor Farah Nasser’s thought-provoking look at the definition of terrorism reached about 2.4-million Facebook users and garnered 1 million views.
It was one of the most-engaging Facebook posts among Canadian news outlets last week, according to analytics service CrowdTangle. The videos were also seen 16,000 times via two tweets.
WATCH: Farah Nasser and 93 others illustrate a disturbing U.S. gun violence stat.
![Click to play video: '93: Gun violence in America by the numbers'](https://i0.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/241/719/FARAH%20SHOOTING%20PRETAPE%20(ONLINE)%202.00_00_53_17.Still001.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all)
Las Vegas food truck offers free meals to doctors and nurses
![Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.](https://globalnews.ca/wp-content/themes/shaw-globalnews/images/skyline/national.jpg)
Get daily National news
The heartwarming tale of a food truck offering free meals outside a Las Vegas hospital was viewed more than 516,000 times on Facebook.
B.C. man survives bullet in back of the head during Vegas attack
This Global BC tale of a Canadian man’s survival against great odds garnered about 48,000 comments, likes and shares and reached 605,000 people on one Facebook post alone.
WATCH: 30-year-old Braden Matejka of British Columbia speaks from his hospital room.
![Click to play video: 'Canadian shooting survivor recounts horror in Las Vegas'](https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/596/123/2017-10-04T21-39-01.633Z--1280x720.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all)
‘He saved me’: Girlfriend of man killed in Vegas describes his final moments
Jordan McIldoon was one of the Canadians who didn’t make it. A heartbreaking story about his last moments prompted about 43,000 comments, reactions and shares on social media.
![Click to play video: 'Girlfriend of B.C. victim of Las Vegas shooting remembers “love of her life”'](https://i2.wp.com/media.globalnews.ca/videostatic/441/419/GBCNH171003Ahua_tnb_2.jpg?w=1040&quality=70&strip=all)
The photo that captured the chaos
Finally, a powerful image of Vancouver’s Quinn Mell-Cobb shielding his girlfriend Madison Milford on the ground amid the chaos of the attack struck a chord with the Global News Instagram audience, making it the most-viewed post of the year on our @globalnews account. “This picture is a beautiful example of love,” said one commenter.
Another summed up the week perfectly with this comment: “True gentleman! Good on him. Glad they are ok as well as others, but so sad for those who were injured or lost lives due to this monster.”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZwobHQFgG_
Comments