Suit against social media companies including #Meta, #Google says racist #BuffaloTops gunman was #radicalized online

#PaytonGendron, who has pleaded guilty to murder & #HateCrime charges & is serving life in prison, was not #racist until he became addicted to #SocialMedia apps, the suit states.

#Law #Legal #Justice #MassShootings #Ethics
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/suit-social-media-companies-meta-google-says-racist-buffalo-tops-gunma-rcna93875

#Buffaloshooter #PaytonGendron is sentenced to life for hate-fueled rampage that killed 10 after being rushed in court | The US Sun https://www.the-sun.com/news/7403493/buffalo-tops-supermarket-shooter-payton-gendron-sentencing/ #TOOMANYGUNS

"A white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket was sentenced to life in prison without parole Wednesday after relatives of his victims confronted him with pain and rage caused by his racist attack...

[Payton] Gendron, whose hatred was fueled by racist conspiracy theories he encountered online, cried during some of the testimony"
https://apnews.com/article/legal-proceedings-new-york-buffalo-crime-terrorism-a13cf95d1fbecfa64571de87d2ccfa8a?utm_source=homepage&utm_medium=TopNews&utm_campaign=position_01

#Racism #MassShooting #Crime #USA #PaytonGendron

Eerie Comparisons Found Between Buffalo and Colorado Shooter | https://www.theroot.com/eerie-comparisons-found-between-buffalo-and-colorado-sh-1849864344 #andersonleealdrich #schoolshooting #paytongendron #socialissues #xavierkraus #leealdrich #gendron

> .. to see fewer tragedies like the racist murders in Buffalo.. combat the #nihilism at the core of the shooter’s worldview. Fighting #racism itself is going to be a part of that effort. If wealth was not so concentrated, however, or if politicians acted as though the #ClimateCrisis really mattered, there would be a smaller reservoir of nihilistic youths for right-wing extremists to recruit from in the first place.
https://theintercept.com/2022/05/17/buffalo-shooter-great-replacement-theory-scarcity-climate/
#MurtazaHussain #PaytonGendron