How Online Extremists Are Planning For Inauguration Day

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jan 11, 2021

Andrew Marantz, staff writer at The New Yorker and author of Antisocial: Online Extremists, Techno-Utopians, and the Hijacking of the American Conversation Viking (October 8, 2019), talks about how online extremists are planning to organize in the days leading up to and on Inauguration Day and whether the deplatforming of Donald Trump and apps like Parler will make a difference or if it's much too little too late.

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