What I Didn't Expect From Memes

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Joanna is also a writer. She focuses on gender and parenting issues. When she looked over the shoulder of one of her kids, who was probably around 13 or 14 at the time as he scrolled his Instagram explore page, I saw a meme fly by that had Hitler. In this case, when I read the content on the meme, it was somebody tipping off Hitler so that he could have won.

A lot of IRL violence starts with online radicalization. We revisit our conversation with writer and parent Joanna Schroeder, who wrote a guide for parents about what to look out for and how to intervene.

This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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