Alex Newhouse, deputy director of the Institute’s Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism (CTEC), discussed online extremism and mass shootings with WBUR’s “On Point.”
Newhouse explained that far-right terrorist, or militant accelerationist, communities have “arisen by virtue of how the Internet has also developed over time.” He noted that these communities can drive individuals to become detached from shared reality, sometimes leading to acts of mass violence.
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Alex Newhouse
In an interview on NPR’s Morning Edition, Newhouse said the shooter’s motives appeared to not to be political, but rather the result of a warped reality fueled by fringe online communities.
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A team of 13 Middlebury Institute students took the top prize in the Department of Homeland Security’s Invent2Prevent competition, which challenged them to innovate against violence and terrorism.
USA Today featured Professor Jason Blazakis, director of the Center on Terrorism, Extremism, and Counterterrorism, who says there’s no evidence that the Brooklyn subway shooting was a false flag operation.
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