How could we have prevented the tragic murder of a husband and father of two toddlers? How can we prevent another one?
Each of us is grappling with these questions in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. While the answers are complex, we know at least one preventable factor that motivated Kirk’s murderer: internet radicalization.
UNIVERSITIES MUST FIX THE PROBLEM THAT LED TO CHARLIE KIRK’S MURDER
According to Utah Gov. Spencer Cox, the alleged murderer was immersed in a “deep, dark internet … Reddit culture.” He joked about murdering Kirk after the fact on the online platform Discord, and he seemed to be active on fringe pornography websites.
In nearly every case, perpetrators of violent acts like these are radicalized online. The school shooter who left
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