Social media has been radicalizing people for years

Social media has been radicalizing people for years

Released Monday, 18th January 2021
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Social media has been radicalizing people for years

Social media has been radicalizing people for years

Social media has been radicalizing people for years

Social media has been radicalizing people for years

Monday, 18th January 2021
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Back in March 2019, a gunman killed 51 people at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and streamed the whole thing on YouTube. After that event we took a weeklong look at how social media radicalized people to violence, and how a troll becomes a terrorist. Now, nearly two years later and after a violent attack on the U.S. Capitol, there still seems to be some surprise that online speech leads to offline consequences, so I wanted to revisit some of what I heard that week.

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