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YouTube and Extremism
In her report, becca lewis captured an audience leaning in to extremest content on utup. She saw comments under vidios from channels like rubens congratulating centres on interviewing extremists. And that feedback loop can have real world consequences. One of malin's followers was brenton tarrant, the man who murdered 51 people at two mosques in new zealand and live stream the atrocity. In december 20 20, a new zealand government report revealed that tarrant had donated money to molin's freedo radio. Through interviews with terrant, the report concluded that youtube was a far more significant source of information and inspiration for him than right wing
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