Buffalo Mass Shooting: Racist, Violent Ideas Jump From Web’s Fringes to Mainstream Sites

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Despite some efforts by the largest tech companies to limit the spread of hateful content, it often remains only a click or two away

 

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As the number of mass shootings escalate, experts say many of the disturbing ideas that fuel the atrocities are no longer relegated to a handful of tricky-to-find dark corners of the web. More and more outlets, both fringe and mainstream, host bigoted content, often in the name of free speech. And the inability — or unwillingness — of online services to contain violent content threatens to draw more people toward hateful postings.

 

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/technology/fringe-mainstream-social-media.html

 

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