“As long as I’ve been looking into this stuff, since 2016, there has been this prolonged or delayed sense that what happens on the internet is not real,” said Joshua Citarella, the host of the Doomscroll podcast, during our conversation the same morning 22-year-old Tyler Robinson was arrested for the alleged murder of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk. At the time, early reports and social-media posts speculating Robinson’s motivations and ideology were flooding feeds, some declaring him an anti-fascist radical and others a white nationalist Groyper based on the messages engraved on shell casings and his digital footprint seemingly being influenced by memes. Less than a couple of weeks after Citarella and I spoke, Joshua Jahn, the 29-year-old who opened fire on an ICE facility in Da

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