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From 4chan to international politics, a bug-eating conspiracy theory goes mainstream

The conspiracy theory alleges that a shadowy global elite conspires to control the world's population, in part by forcing them to eat insects. It's being cited by politicians in several countries.

WEKU

New rumors suggest Shin Megumi Tensei games may be coming to Xbox Game Pass

A rumor has been spreading that several titles from Atlus' mainline Shin Megami Tensei series may be soon coming soon to Xbox consoles and Xbox Game Pass.

Windows Central

TechScape: Will Meta’s massive leak democratise AI – and at what cost?

4Chan users have posted the tech giant’s new ChatGPT-style language model online, putting the future of AI at a crossroads – and opening up a whole host of dangers

The Guardian - UK

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The week in audio: The Witch Trials of JK Rowling; Dear Daughter; Sisters – review

The Harry Potter author talks about her struggles with fandom; Namulanta Kombo’s acclaimed World Service show returns; and Kaitlin Prest investigates sibling power struggles

The Guardian - UK

Footage of her daughter’s murder went viral. Now Bianca Devins’ mother wants to change the internet

Bianca Devins was kind, thoughtful, strong and just 17 years old. During her lifetime, incels harassed her online. Then, one day, a friend who had aligned himself with the incel community killed her. Holly Baxter speaks to Bianca’s mother Kimberly about how she channeled her grief into action

The Independent UK

Real-world events trigger online hate toward unrelated groups, study finds

Researchers say finding could help moderators predict when content is likely to be published and what to look out for

The Guardian - UK

Coup attempts in Germany and the US confirm it: the key terror threat is the far right

The danger of violent jihadism persists, but the growing menace is from racist extremists, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland

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Parmy Olson: Musk invites Trump to his Twitter hellscape

“Twitter is ALIVE.”

Tribune News Service

David DePape’s dark journey from Obama backer to QAnon extremist accused in Pelosi attack

RICHMOND, Calif. — To co-workers who knew David DePape a few years ago, he was a gentle, quiet carpenter who liked to watch the “Game of Thrones” and “Stranger Things” series and brought sunflower seeds to his worksite to feed birds and squirrels.

Los Angeles Times

Online platforms radicalized the Buffalo mass shooting suspect, a new report says

The New York attorney general's office said it reviewed thousands of pages of documents and social media content to study how the suspect used online platforms to plan and publicize the mass shooting.

WEKU

New York investigators release report from "chilling" Buffalo shooting

Hochul and New York Attorney General Letitia James have called on federal and state reforms to combat online extremism and violence.

Axios

Far-right online trolls try jamming up LGBT+ youth suicide hotline

4chan users accused of plotting to ‘f*** up’ The Trevor Project’s crisis line: ‘This is egregious’

The Independent UK

This AI posted on 4chan for days before being unmasked

Yannic Kilcher trained his bot on 134.5 million 4chan posts. What could go wrong?

Input

Right-wing misinformation machine revs up after shootings

After Buffalo and Uvalde, lies and misinformation spread faster than ever.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene becomes latest Republican to push baseless transgender rumour about Uvalde shooter

Greene joins line of far-right Republicans falling for 4chan misinformation

The Independent UK

'Horrifying' conspiracy theories swirl around Texas shooting

Misinformation and conspiracy theories about Tuesday's deadly school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, began to spread online only hours after the carnage

Salon

Gosar: TX shooter "transsexual leftist"

The claim appears to have been percolating on 4chan before Rep. Paul Gosar picked it up

The Independent UK

Paul Gosar deletes tweet blaming Texas shooting on ‘transsexual leftist illegal alien’

Arizona Republican was stripped of committee assignments last year

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New York attorney general launches probe of Twitch and Discord after Buffalo shooting

The investigation targets online platforms including video-streaming site Twitch, messaging platform Discord and the anonymous message board 4chan.

The Independent UK

Buffalo shooter let some people see plans just before attack

Shortly before police say he opened fire, the white gunman accused of killing 10 Black people at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket allowed a small group of people to see his long-simmering plans for the attack, which he had been chronicling for months in a private, online diary

The Guardian - US

How the Buffalo massacre is part of US tradition: ‘We’ll continue to see killings’

Brandi Collins-Dexter of Harvard’s Shorenstein Center spoke to the Guardian about how the massacre is rooted in America’s long history of white supremacist violence

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Joe Biden says ‘white supremacy is a poison’

President attacks those who promote racist conspiracy theory ‘for power, political gain and for profit’. Plus, first open briefing on UFOs since 1966

The Guardian - US

How 4chan’s toxic culture helped radicalize Buffalo shooting suspect

Payton Gendron’s 180-page manifesto borrowed straight from the site’s politics boards, echoing antisemitic and racist myths

The Independent UK

Accused Buffalo gunman followed familiar radicalization path

The white gunman charged in a racist rampage inside a Buffalo supermarket didn’t need to travel abroad for tactical training, nor did he need to join an organization of like-minded militants who shared his world view

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We Need To Talk About Australia’s Role In Radicalising The Buffalo Shooter Into White Supremacy

The Buffalo shooter was inspired by Christchurch and Australian white supremacy to carry out his racist attack on Black Americans.

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