This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Shimita Bessu. Today, how the internet is

radicalizing young men and producing mass murderers.

Like any typical 90s child, NBC reporter Ben Collins grew up with the internet,

which is why when he was told early in his career that he'd be covering the internet, he thought, okay, this is going to be a pretty fun and chill job.

One of my favorite stories from early on was there was this group of people in Dayton, Ohio who had created a Facebook event saying that

Limp Biscuit was going to play a concert at the Shell Station on 420 and I called them on the phone and they only spoke back to me in Limbiscuit lyrics.

It was like a wild ride.

That was the kind of thing I was covering, right?

But the internet was changing.

Ben first started to notice it in August of 2015 when something shocking happened on live TV.

We're continuing to follow breaking news out of Roanoke, Virginia where a reporter and

photographer were shot live to death on the air.

Allison Parker's reporter on your screen.

Then knew Allison Parker's boyfriend, Chris.

And in the days after the shooting, he started to see a lot of lies circulating on the internet.

People saying Chris was a crisis actor, or a conspiracy theory video on YouTube that had been viewed nearly a million times

saying that Allison was in on it all along. So Ben did something kind of radical.

He called up the people posting the lies.

And I would let them talk for half an hour at the end.

I'd be like, just letting you know, I know Chris.

He's been a real person this entire time.

And I know you think he's a character and actor or something.

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