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‘A perfect storm’: Extremism online and political polarization are increasing the risk of attacks, experts say
NBC NEWS ^ | January 4, 2024 | By Adiel Kaplan and Kenzi Abou-Sabe

Posted on 01/04/2025 7:04:58 AM PST by artichokegrower

The ISIS-inspired attack in New Orleans underscores how extremism online and political divisions at home have created “a perfect storm” for radicalization in America, experts say, with law enforcement struggling to track an increasingly fractured threat.

Finding and accessing extremist communities online has never been easier, the threat has never been higher, and the ideology of those carrying out attacks has never been more splintered, according to the experts.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


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Right-wing ideologies have fueled more than 70% of all extremist attacks and domestic terror plots since 2002 in the U.S., according to the Anti-Defamation League.


Where was NBC NEWS during the BLM riots and the pro-Palestinian protests

1 posted on 01/04/2025 7:04:58 AM PST by artichokegrower
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Our enemies want more online censorship—any excuse will do.


2 posted on 01/04/2025 7:05:55 AM PST by cgbg (It is time to pull the Deep State out of the mass media--like ticks from a dog.)
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They cannot just talk about radical Islam without including the radical grandmas at Jan. 6, and abortion clinic protesters and school board soccer moms.


3 posted on 01/04/2025 7:07:50 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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This is just a small example of how the left thinks, (if you can call it thinking). Any problem, large or small, can be blamed on the right. And if the left caused the problem, it’s just more evidence that the right is at fault.

I’m firmly convinced that our domestic left is much like leftists elsewhere, and they would have no problem exterminating the likes of me. I live in a very blue area, and I am also convinced many of the leftist that live around me would not shed a tear seeing the likes of me hauled away.


4 posted on 01/04/2025 7:08:50 AM PST by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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We are experiencing more free speech than we have in a long time thanks to Trump, Musk, and many other warriors who have paid a price.

OUR FREE SPEECH COMES WITH RESPONSIBILITES.

I will let the reader reflect on what those responsibilities are...........................


5 posted on 01/04/2025 7:09:38 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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Where was NBC NEWS during the BLM riots and the pro-Palestinian protests

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Probably reporting on the mostly peaceful protests while federal courthouse was under siege, people were being murdered and cities were burned and looted.


6 posted on 01/04/2025 7:09:59 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ( @whoisourPresident)
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The ISIS-inspired attack in New Orleans

The FBI-inspired attack in New Orleans.

There fixed the BIG LIE
7 posted on 01/04/2025 7:10:18 AM PST by eyeamok
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To: artichokegrower

Anti-Defamation League. ROTFL! A miniature U.N.


8 posted on 01/04/2025 7:11:08 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Only 17 days of the Bidenskyyyyyyyy "Scorched Earth Exit" left.)
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This is the kind of article that helps the right. People are on to this extreme gaslighting because, at the end of the day, most people want to live. Self preservation is a powerful truth teller.


9 posted on 01/04/2025 7:11:25 AM PST by Codeflier (Don't worry....be happy)
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Any time you see the phrase, experts say, you will be in for gaslighting.
10 posted on 01/04/2025 7:13:18 AM PST by Wallace T. (.)
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This.


11 posted on 01/04/2025 7:15:02 AM PST by TTFlyer (Lenin: that by the infliction of terror, a well-organized minority can conquer a nation.)
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To: artichokegrower

Experts is the leftist word for propagandists.


12 posted on 01/04/2025 7:23:47 AM PST by JayGalt (Fight! Fight! Fight!)
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“Experts say”

Name them. Who? Exactly and precisely who?


13 posted on 01/04/2025 7:26:05 AM PST by Jarhead9297
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“...with law enforcement struggling to track an increasingly fractured threat.”

Gee, for the good ol’ days.

When you didn’t have to put a third or so of the domestic population under extreme electronic surveillance to find a single manipulatable idiot with the right demographic characteristics to advance the
deep state narrative du jour.


14 posted on 01/04/2025 7:29:49 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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From the article:
"""According to the federal government, the main terror threat to the U.S. now is lone actors inspired by extremism ideology. Those ideologies range widely. The majority of attackers are on the far right, as in the 2022 Buffalo supermarket shooting. But sometimes, as in the New Orleans attack, the driving ideology is radical Islamism. Occasionally, it’s far-left or anti-Trump, as in the 2017 attack on Republican members of Congress and staffers at a baseball practice outside Washington and the apparent assassination attempt of Trump in Florida last year, or at other times a mix of ideologies, what FBI Director Christopher Wray has called “salad bar extremism.”"""

15 posted on 01/04/2025 7:33:30 AM PST by Yardstick
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The ISIS-inspired attack in New Orleans underscores how extremism online and political divisions at home have created “a perfect storm” for radicalization in America,

NBC is right about this. The trouble is, NBC is one of the main instigators of the lies, distortions, and omissions that fuel these things. Tagline still applies.

16 posted on 01/04/2025 7:49:51 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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Americans have not been able to trust our national institutions for decades. Pinkos have destroyed our governmental agencies; there is zero trust there. The media has long been a bunch of communists and sympathizers. Our medical agencies have been perverted, to include mental health. Leftists have destroyed any confidence any thinking person would have had in them. Then there are our elected so-called leaders. 99% are grifters getting rich off insider information and our tax dollars.
I lost respect for any of them long ago.


17 posted on 01/04/2025 7:51:08 AM PST by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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Where was NBC NEWS during the BLM riots and the pro-Palestinian protests

Urging them on, as I'm sure you know.

18 posted on 01/04/2025 7:51:13 AM PST by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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“We are experiencing more free speech than we have in a long time thanks to Trump, Musk, and many other warriors who have paid a price.
OUR FREE SPEECH COMES WITH RESPONSIBILITES.
I will let the reader reflect on what those responsibilities are...........................”

You don't comment like a creepy leftist at all.

19 posted on 01/04/2025 8:02:36 AM PST by wildcard_redneck
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To: artichokegrower

Meanwhile, Facebook is now infested with Muslim propaganda.


20 posted on 01/04/2025 8:06:54 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Black guy upon receiving a MAGA hat: "MURICA!")
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