Radicalization is not just happening in the dark corners of the Net, but also on Facebook and YouTube. In question, the logic of the algorithms of these platforms, which offer ever more extreme content.
One boring summer afternoon, when I was a kid, my sister and I harassed my dad to take us to a new place. He thought about it for a moment and asked us if we wanted to go to a new park near our home. We were amazed to learn that there was a park in our neighborhood that we had never heard of. Our father asked us to think carefully. “Dell Park, he said, that’s his name. You see where it is ?”
We immediately got into various speculations, spending almost half an hour discussing where this park might be in our small town. After unsuccessfully listing all the options, we gave up, and my father agreed to take us. After ninety seconds of walking, he stopped and pointed to a street sign: “Dell Park”. We had forgotten that it was the name of the street parallel to ours.
Right in front of our eyes
My father hastened to tell his joke to the neighbor, who laughed heartily. Concentrated on our first idea, we had completely missed the answer which was however before our eyes. On that day, we not only learned that the correct answer is not always in the expected category, but that it is very easy to get sidetracked from the truth by what looks like an obvious solution.
On December 8, 2020, a New Zealand investigative report into the Christchurch attacks was released. Its authors examined the circumstances of the two shootings that erupted in March 2019 and left 51 dead and 40 injured in two mosques in the city.
These attacks quickly gained international media attention, not just because of their incredibly violent and racist nature, but because of the exposed links between their perpetrator and extreme right-wing groups operating on the Internet.
The terrorist filmed and broadcast live the first seventeen minutes of the attack on Facebook – during which he is heard saying: “Remember, guys, subscribe to PewDiePie”, either the exact terms of the appeal launched by the YouTuber Felix Kjellberg [accusé de propos racistes et antisémites].
Before taking action, the terrorist had posted a 74-page “manifesto” on the infamous 8chan forum. Filled with insider jokes, the post sounded like a shitpost – the kind of absurd or ironic rambling aimed only at provoking reactions from Internet users.
Hasty speculations
At the time, the
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