Experts say misinformation shared online can act as 'weapons,' influencing already unhinged people to potentially commit future attacks.
"What we have seen is that crime has gone up and that hate crime has gone up," said Brian Levin, Professor of Hate Crime and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino."We have to work on hate an anger, but we also have to work on limiting access to these weapons from unstable people."
In Buffalo, authorities say the gunman planned his attack well before executing it. He posted a long manifesto online detailing his attack and his motives behind it. He drove 200 miles to commit the mass shooting.The gunmanbefore the website stopped the stream. It ls causing other experts to be concerned about the role social media plays.
"It got stopped, great. But people had already recorded it and passed it on, and I think even this morning there were links to it on twitter," said Don Heider, Ethics Professor at Santa Clara University. Heider fears the misinformation and conspiracies shared online only influence already unhinged people to potentially commit future attacks.
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