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Just a reminder, everyone - 8chan, where the Christchurch shooter posted his propaganda, spiraled out from 4chan, founded by Chris Poole, who - in 2016 - was hired by Google to 'fix' social networking.

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To everyone hating on this post:

it doesn't matter how much sunshine and lollypops 4chan was filled with in the early days, or that any serious shifts occurred after he sold... point is, the system he architected fostered a community that drove radicalization.
To me, that screams that he was - at best - short-sighted when he was 15... and that there was no change to obviate the shift in community dynamics before he sold the company strongly suggests ... he's not very good at designing social networks that DON'T foster radicalization.
So, yeah. He built the thing and didn't optimize it to avoid becoming a shitshow.

So Google hiring him to 'fix' their social network issues... unless the goal was to spread the lulz - it just makes no sense.
And there are plenty of other sources confirming this story... Fortune, Business Insider, Crunchbase, sundry newspapers...

just google it.

*facepalm*
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