Dan TDM: I think this is probably in every teenage boys explore page on Instagram, especially if he plays video games. They're all just meme accounts. It's not like it was Stormfront or something. Very easily identifiable as some kind of Nazi thing. And their parents don't realize that somebody out there knows they're not being supervised.
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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