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The making of a YouTube radical: He fell down an 'alt-right rabbit hole'

By Kevin Roose
New York Times·
18 mins to read
The making of a YouTube radical: He fell down an 'alt-right rabbit hole'
The making of a YouTube radical: He fell down an 'alt-right rabbit hole'

Caleb Cain pulled a Glock pistol from his waistband, took out the magazine and casually tossed both onto the kitchen counter.

"I bought it the day after I got death threats," he said.

The threats, Cain explained, came from right-wing trolls in response to a video he had posted on

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