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Fever Dreams

Kelly Weill On The New Abnormal

Fever Dreams

The Daily Beast

News & Politics, Government

4.4767 Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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The Daily Beast's Kelly Weill joins The New Abnormal to talk the reputation laundering of the Allen, TX mall shooter.

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0:00.0

Imagine winning 15 million pounds on Christmas Day.

0:05.5

The 15 million pound Lotto jackpot must be won on Christmas Day.

0:10.7

There's still time to get in the draw.

0:13.1

Lotto, will you be the next millionaire?

0:16.1

The National Lottery, rules and procedures apply.

0:18.5

Players must be 18 or over.

0:22.9

Hi, FeverDreams is no longer producing new episodes, so I wanted to share another political

0:27.4

podcast from The Daily Beast. It's called The New Abnormal. Enjoy this episode and subscribe

0:33.1

at thedailybeast.com slash podcast or on your favorite major podcast player.

0:37.8

Last weekend, we sat in horror as details of a mass killing at the Allen outlet mall in Texas

0:43.1

started coming out. And in the days since, we've learned more about the shooter, Maricio Garcia.

0:48.1

Here to bring us up to date is Daily Beast reporter Kelly Weil. Kelly, thanks so much for being here.

0:52.4

Thanks for having me. It seems like much,

0:54.8

if not all of what we know about Garcia, comes from an account he apparently had on a Russian

0:59.6

social media site, okay.ru. So let's start with this. What exactly is that? It's probably something

1:05.7

very few Americans had heard about before this. Yeah, that's right. It's a Russian social media site.

1:11.6

It's not someplace you go to get, you know, 20,000 followers

1:14.6

because you're just certainly not going to get that kind of audience there among English speakers.

1:19.4

But the upside to people who dabble in extremism is because there are so few English speakers there,

1:25.0

there are so few mods, you're much less likely to get a ban for posting pro-Hitler stuff than you would on, say, Facebook or something like that.

1:32.4

So that's how we ended up getting, you know, frankly, years of this guy's neo-Nazi diary pretty much intact.

1:39.1

So that's basically what it was. I've seen it described is that, you know, it's called a social media site, and it's not

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