New Zealand's government found that the white supremacist Christchurch mass shooter was "not a frequent commentator on extreme right-wing sites."
Instead, it was the YouTube radicalization pathway, "a significant source of information and inspiration."
theguardian.com/world/live/202…
Instead, it was the YouTube radicalization pathway, "a significant source of information and inspiration."
theguardian.com/world/live/202…
What was incredible, covering YouTube-abetted terror at the time, was the lies, the obfuscation, the impossibility of getting answers from YouTube.
Astronomical harm that I saw with my own eyes, and I was viewed as crazy and melodramatic for reporting on it.
Until Christchurch.
Astronomical harm that I saw with my own eyes, and I was viewed as crazy and melodramatic for reporting on it.
Until Christchurch.
The next few months became watching a car wreck in slow motion. All of these kids radicalized by YouTube, then sent off to 8chan or 4chan or one of the more niche, dumber forums, begging each other to kill for the cause.
By the summer, I'd wake up on weekends and expect them.
By the summer, I'd wake up on weekends and expect them.
The shooting where I lost it was Poway. People seem to have forgotten about this one, and I don't know why. The kid basically copy-and-pasted his manifesto. That's when I realized it wasn't going to stop, that we were at the beginning of this, and nobody was ready for that.
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