Matthew Bergman, founding attorney of the Social Media Victims Law Center, said in a statement that Gendron “was motivated to commit his heinous crime by racist, antisemitic, and white supremacist propaganda fed to him by social media companies.”
“These posts led him down a rabbit hole of increasingly radical sites, where he was indoctrinated in white supremacist replacement theory and violent accelerationism,” Bergman added. “This horrible crime was neither an accident nor coincidence, but rather the foreseeable result of social media companies’ intentional decision to maximize user engagement over public safety.”
Hope they win because I agree that social media is the number one cause of the rise in white supremacist and fascism. Not that it wasn’t always out there but now the propaganda can be easily fed to these people and now with people like Twitter allowing it on their platform it makes them look creditable when they be shuned and down right banned online.
Yeah it’ll be interesting if there’s enough evidence with some of these manifestos and investigations to put the pieces together and say this is exactly how he was radicalized.
The amount of terrible currently on Google Wave and Google+
wait… those still exist?
