When Online Extremism Becomes Offline Violence
Endless Thread
WBUR
4.2 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 20 May 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
On Endless Thread, we talk about the blurring lines between our online and offline worlds. This week, we discuss the role online platforms played in the mass shooting on May 14, 2022, in Buffalo, New York. We also ask experts how content moderation on tech platforms can be managed better in order to prevent violence like this from happening again. (Nora Saks, an Endless Thread producer, is filling in for Amory Sivertson as co-host for this episode.)
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| 0:46.1 | Oof, it has not been a great week for this country and guns and racism in the internet. |
| 0:54.4 | Not that any particular week feels particularly great for those things these days, but this |
| 0:58.7 | one was real bad. |
| 1:00.3 | True. |
| 1:01.8 | And the shooting that happened in Buffalo, New York, in which an 18-year-old man targeted |
| 1:06.7 | black people in a grocery store killing ten has had a lot of connections to the internet. |
| 1:13.5 | The suspected terrorist in the shooting may have fed his racist beliefs with the help |
| 1:18.6 | of sites like Forchan and Reddit. |
| 1:21.2 | He may have used the popular video game voice and instant messaging application discord. |
| 1:26.8 | He streamed the shooting on Twitch. |
| 1:29.7 | The video later got posted to Facebook. |
| 1:31.8 | The list goes on here. |
| 1:33.9 | So today, instead of our regular planned programming, we're going to talk a little about |
| 1:39.4 | all of that and content moderation. |
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| 1:47.4 | with Joan Donovan. |
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