Cosmo goes undercover with online extremism investigator

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🗓️ 8 August 2019

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Brian Stelter sits down with Andrea Stanley, features editor at Cosmopolitan Magazine, to discuss her latest story: "Is It Possible to Stop a Mass Shooting Before It Happens?" In her piece, Stanley follows "K," a top-secret investigator who has been infiltrating online hate groups to monitor the behavior of men who display signs of violence. During her reporting process, "It was not lost on me that I was going to report on a woman who is tracking some of the worst men in our country," she said. Stanley talks more about her reporting process, Cosmopolitan's coverage of these violent men, and how "the internet has become one of the most dangerous places."To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Extremism thrives online and there's a body count to show for it. We have seen this
0:08.6	time and time again this year. Hate rising thingymeas of the internet
0:16.0	but there is a silver lining
0:18.0	this online activity can actually help investigators
0:22.0	they track users online footprints. They look for the
0:26.6	kinds of posts or comments that could escalate to violence.
0:32.8	And that's our topic today.
0:35.0	I'm Brian Stelter and this is the Reliable Sources Podcast.
0:37.9	Our weekly chance to go more in-depth with media leaders and newsmakers talking about this crazed media and tech ecosystem
0:46.2	that we are all living in. And joining me today is Cosmopolitan features editor
0:51.8	Andrea Stanley who's been exploring this ecosystem with the help of an anonymous source.
1:00.0	Andrea, thanks for joining me. Thank you so much for having me.
1:03.2	Anonymous source may or may not be the right term.
1:05.6	How do you describe K?
1:08.1	Sure.
1:09.1	So when I first found out about Kay, it was as I was talking to the Anti-Defamation League about the rise in the
1:19.7	Manosphere and this misogynistic tone that was popping up online. in this
1:25.0	mousogenistic tone that was popping up online. And I became aware of her through this person that works at the ADL Center on Extremism.
1:31.0	I think she would have preferred for us not to know about her and she was not
1:38.0	interested at all in being profiled or speaking to us or talking to us about her work.
1:45.0	After a lot of conversation, a couple of weeks, she finally agreed to talk to us,
1:49.5	but on the condition that we keep a lot of her identifying details anonymous so her name
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