SALT LAKE CITY — Investigators say that the suspected murderer of Charlie Kirk, Tyler Robinson, was a regular user of the platform Discord, and communicated with friends there before and after the shooting of the political activist .
The app and website are regularly used by gamers for discussing games and setting up voice chats during gameplay, but the platform has also grown to host a wide variety of interests in recent years.
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Former FBI agent Greg Rogers said he’s worked cases before where extremists would spend hours online each day on similar online forums.
“It’s not a[n] exaggeration to say it becomes their reality,” Rogers explained. “They spend hours a day in there. And I think th