The internet is radicalizing white men. Big tech could be doing more

Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2019-05-04 19:41

Article here. Excerpt:

'Combine those algorithms with men who are disaffected, who may feel that the world owes them more, and you have a recipe for creating extremism of any stripe.

"They're picking up an ideology that helps them justify their rage, their disappointment, and it's something available," Jessica Stern, a research professor at Boston University's Pardee School of Global Studies and the co-author of "ISIS: The State of Terror," told CNN Business Friday. "Terrorism runs in fads. We noticed that people were picking up the ISIS ideology who weren't even Muslim, they were converting to Islam. The ISIS ideology was an attractive way for some of these men to express their rage and disappointment. This is another ideology that is becoming very popular, it's another fad."'

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Argh, entitled disgruntled white men are white nationalists too! They're all watching YouTube and getting radicalized into being Nazis and killing everyone!

A couple nutcases go trigger-happy and suddenly white men are being radicalized to latter-day Nazism. Yep, the whole stinking lot of us.

A lunch lady in Philly went tonto recently and took BB gun shots at children in the playground. What could have done that, YouTube videos maybe? Did radical feminist videos make her do it? Sure they did. In fact let's block anything she's watched on YT for the past 30 days. That'll fix it.

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Submitted by Matt on Sat, 2019-05-04 19:42