Tracing the web footprint of US mass shooters | India Today Infographic
1 min readOnline chatting platforms have changed bodily manifestos of ‘lone wolfs’ who perform mass shootings. India Today’s Infographic tracks three current shooters within the US and the web proof they left behind.
Online chat boards and meme sharing platforms have grow to be new-age mediums for shooters on the earth. (Courtesy: Rahul Gupta)
The Unabomber in 1995 printed a 35,000-word essay referred to as ‘Industrial Society and Its Future.’ The manifesto was broadly learn within the aftermath of his arrest, when he was convicted of being a serial mail bomber, who had terrorized America for nearly 20 years.
Almost 20 years later, on-line chat boards and meme sharing platforms are the new-age mediums for shooters to share their ideas with the world. In gentle of consecutive current shootings, India Today delves into the web footprint left behind by three gunmen: Salvador Ramos, who shot and killed 22 at an elementary college in Texas, Payton S. Gendron, who shot a grocery story in Buffalo, and Raymond Spencer, who had shot and injured 4 folks from his house in New York.
Two issues the three had in widespread was a) they have been all gunmen and b) that they had left proof of their upcoming motives on the Internet earlier than they went on a rampage.
