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From Wondery, I'm Lindsay Graham, and this is American Scandal.

On April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb in downtown Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring hundreds more.

It was the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in US history, and as law enforcement began investigating McVeigh,

they learned that the former American soldier saw the attack as only the beginning in a larger war against the government he once served.

Over the years, McVeigh had become a political radical.

He'd been swept up in paranoid conspiracy theories and believed meaningful change could only occur through a large act of violence.

McVeigh was ultimately found guilty for his crimes and was executed in 2001.

But over 20 years later, some have begun to warn that McVeigh's radical ideology is making a resurgence, and that social media is at least partly to blame for the rise of political extremism.

My guest today is Paul Barrett, an author, journalist, and the deputy director of the NYU Stern Center for Business and Human Rights, where he co-authored the report, fueling the fire, how social media intensifies US political polarization and what can be done about it.

Barrett's books include Glock, which tells the story of the weapon that's become known as America's Gun.

He also wrote Law of the Jungle about a lawyer's quest to hold big oil accountable for polluting the Amazon.

For over three decades, Barrett worked as a reporter, first at the Wall Street Journal, and then at Bloomberg Business Week Magazine, covering business, law, and social issues in America.

In this conversation, we'll discuss how social media has helped foster political polarization and extremism, and what lawmakers and tech companies can do about it. Our conversation is next.

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