Online extremism and the digital footprint of mass shooters

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Analysts studying recent mass shootings say there's a previously unrecognized pattern. It begins in the darkest corners of the internet.

We discuss the online training ground for mass shooters. Alex Newhouse and Emmi Conley join Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:18.8	This is on point. I'm Megna Chacrabardi.
0:30.7	There is no one thing that makes a mass shooter.
0:35.0	However, our guests today say that at least three recent mass shooters,
0:40.2	including the suspect in the Highland Park Illinois shooting,
0:43.4	share a common trait.
0:45.6	They were deeply immersed in an online subculture marked by extreme
0:50.1	gourd, ultranialism, with content that's designed to break down
0:55.2	a person's sense of reality.
0:58.1	It's part of an emerging new profile of extremism in this country,
1:01.8	one that's little understood by law enforcement, law makers, and parents.
1:06.6	So we want to try to understand it a little better today.
1:10.3	Alex Newhouse is deputy director of the Center on Terrorism,
1:13.8	Extremism, and Counterterrorism at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies.
1:18.2	And he joins us today from Golden Colorado.
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