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Title: When Hatred Goes Viral: Inside Social Media's Efforts to Combat Terrorism
Author: Larry Greenmeier
Narrator: Mike DelGaudio
Format: Unabridged
Length: 16 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-05-17
Publisher: Scientific American
Genres: Science & Technology, Magazine & Radio
Summary:
On New Years Eve in 2015 local and federal agents arrested a 26-year-old man in Rochester, N.Y., for planning to attack people at random later that night using knives and a machete. Just before his capture Emanuel L. Lutchman had made a videoto be posted to social media following the attackin which he pledged his allegiance to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. Lutchman would later say a key source of inspiration for his plot came from similar videos, posted and shared across social media and Web sites in support of the Islamic State and violent jihad.
"When Hatred Goes Viral: Inside Social Media's Efforts to Combat Terrorism" is from scientificamerican.com, published on May 24, 2017.
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