When I wake up in the morning, I go through a pretty standard media routine.

I check my news alerts, skim the major papers, look at Twitter to see what people are talking about,

then I might read a longer story or two on Slate or the New Yorker,

maybe listen to a podcast. Basically, I want to get a sense of what big stories are happening that day.

But when Daily Beast reporter Will Summer wakes up, he goes through a very different routine.

I have like a folder on my chrome of bookmarks that's about like 30 tabs that I just

like open in the morning. Will covers the extreme right wing and he writes a

newsletter about it. His goal in the morning is to get a sense of what the far right is talking about.

I go on like telegram or parlor, whatever site is up at the time and then typically like

when I go to get lunch or something,

I'll listen to Rush Limbaugh around then

and kind of just get the taste for it.

I checked the Donalds, which is kind of the main pro-Trump forum forum.

On Reddit?

So they got kicked off of Reddit,

and they kind of built their own Reddit.

So it basically looks just like Reddit except like there's no rules.

We're talking about the places where the people who have been kicked off with social media have ended up and their fans.

So already these are like kind of rough and tumble places.

Will is spending his days mainlining some of the darker content on the internet.

So you have like a far right info diet basically.

Yeah, very much so.

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