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Racist and violent ideas jump from web's fringes to mainstream sites

By Steven Lee Myers and Stuart A. Thompson
New York Times·
8 mins to read

Despite some efforts by the largest tech companies to limit the spread of hateful content, it often remains only a click or two away.

On March 30, the young man accused of the mass shooting at a Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York, surfed through a smorgasbord of racist and antisemitic websites online. On BitChute, a video sharing site known for hosting right-wing extremism, he listened to a lecture on the decline of the American middle class by a

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