2022-07-30
25 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
Today how the Internet is radicalizing young men and producing mass murderers.
Like any typical 90s child, NBC reporter Ben Collins grew up with the Internet.
Which is why when he was told early in his career that he'd be covered discovering the Internet, he thought, okay, this is going to be a pretty fun and chill job.
One of my favorite stories from early on was there was this group of people in Dayton, Ohio, who had created a Facebook event saying that Limp Bizkit was going to play a concert at the shell station on 4 20.
And I called them on the phone, and they only spoke back to me in Limp Bizkit lyrics.
It was like a wild ride.
That was the kind of thing I was covering, right?
But the Internet was changing.
Ben first started to notice it in August of 2015, when something shocking happened on live TV.
Continuing to follow breaking news out of.
Roanoke, Virginia, where a reporter and photographer.
Were shot live to death on the air.
Allison Parker is the reporter on your screen.
Ben knew Allison Parker's boyfriend, Chris.
And in the days after the shooting, he started to see a lot of lies circulating on the Internet.
People saying Chris was a crisis actor or a conspiracy theory video on YouTube that had been viewed nearly a million times saying that Allison was in on it all along.
So Ben did something kind of radical.
He called up the people posting the.