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Black Pill How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

Elle Reeve

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of Award-winning journalist and CNN correspondent Elle Reeve was not surprised by the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. With years of in-depth research and on-the-ground investigative reporting under her belt, Reeve was aware...

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The Ezra Klein Show

Christine Emba said she had recently read the book and described it as a frightening look at the altright's evolution.

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So first, most recently I read Black Pill which has actually been reviewed in the Times. It's about the transition from the sort of incels fear to the altright and it is a wronging read.

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Christine Emba said she had recently read the book and described it as a frightening look at the altright's evolution.

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So first, most recently I read Black Pill which has actually been reviewed in the Times. It's about the transition from the sort of incels fear to the altright and it is a wronging read.

On with Kara Swisher

It explored how alienated young men who frequented online forums became radicalized into violent white supremacists, detailing the process of their extremist transformation.

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Black is a senior reporter for NBC, the host of the Peabody Award-winning podcast South Lake and the author of They Came for the Schools.

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It explored how alienated young men who frequented online forums became radicalized into violent white supremacists, detailing the process of their extremist transformation.

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Black is a senior reporter for NBC, the host of the Peabody Award-winning podcast South Lake and the author of They Came for the Schools.

Ellie in Black Pill which is a great title. We write about how a subset of alienated young men who posted memes on image boards like 4chan and 8chan morphed into real life violent white supremacists explain what Black Pill means and how did the radicalization take place?

It's this nihilism that society is absolutely corrupt and hopeless and it is going to collapse and if anything you should enjoy and hasten the collapse of society because what comes after will be a new golden age.

The young men in Ellie's books are generally self-described losers whereas the main subjects in your book, they came for the schools or upper middle class parents in South Lake Texas as suburb outside of Dallas, Fort Worth, I guess anti-woke parents.

So I think all of these storylines are connected. It just it comes back to this belief that we're going to lose what we've earned. They're coming for what we've earned and they're going to give it away to people who don't deserve it.

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