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Inside the extremist online culture that shaped the San Diego mosque shooters

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The shooting reflects how extremist violence evolved after Christchurch — from fringe ideology into a decentralized online culture of memes, edits and mythologized mass shooters.
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Michelle Mildenberg for NBC News
By Pilar Melendez

The San Diego duo responsible for a deadly mosque attack earlier this month were tweens in 2019 when a white supremacist livestreamed himself massacring 51 worshippers in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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