How the Internet Makes Murderers
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 March 2019
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
The Christchurch shooter lurked in corners of the internet that most people don’t understand. But there are ways to fight extremists who are radicalized online -- and the U.S. has done it quite recently.
Guest: Robert Evans, writer for Bellingcat and host of the podcast Behind the Bastards.
Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, and Anna Martin.
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| 0:00.0 | Just a quick heads up here at the top, one of the first things I'm going to do in this episode is swear. |
| 0:05.8 | So if you're not listening on your earbuds already, you might want to pop them in. Here's the show. |
| 0:15.5 | There's this word of been trying to define over the last couple of days. |
| 0:19.3 | Shit posting. It's almost difficult. Like, as you see, I struggle. Shit posting. It's almost difficult. |
| 0:22.0 | As you see, I struggle to explain this. |
| 0:24.1 | It's almost difficult to explain. |
| 0:26.6 | It's more something you understand. |
| 0:29.2 | Robert Evans is what some people call extremely online. |
| 0:33.6 | He's an expert in shit posting. |
| 0:35.6 | It's more like the oxygen of large chunks of the internet. |
| 0:39.6 | If you were going to shitpost me in this interview, how would it work? |
| 0:42.5 | Like, I'd be talking to you and then what would happen? |
| 0:44.5 | So I could just start trolling you. |
| 0:46.7 | One option for shit posting would be like if I were to just start lying about what |
| 0:52.9 | and where it was invented and tell you that there |
| 0:54.6 | was a really clear etymology of the term and a really clear time. |
| 0:58.5 | And I could say, oh, you know, it started in 2005 on 4chan and there was this single user |
| 1:04.7 | name. |
| 1:05.0 | So it's a shitpost because it's not true. |
| 1:06.9 | But a real shit post is more than that. |
| 1:10.2 | It's a lie that's wrapped in something familiar, something enticing, maybe even something |
| 1:15.8 | innocent. |
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