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Memes have become a counterterrorism problem
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Memes have become a counterterrorism problem
On March 15, 2019, Brenton Tarrant opened a livestream with a knowing reference to an internet joke — “Subscribe to PewDiePie” — before proceeding to massacre 51 people in two New Zealand mosques. His manifesto likewise invited audiences to “make memes and shitpost,” explicitly framing the attack as both a terrorist act and a participatory online performance. Analysts at the Global Network on Extremism and Technology now widely recognize the …
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