Man who followed Pittsburgh suspect on social media arrested

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It's CNN, so need to verify that it's not fakenews:


Man who followed Pittsburgh suspect on social media arrested

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(https://www.cnn.com/shows/the-lead)A Washington man who followed the Pittsburgh synagogue suspect on social media was arrested on gun charges after his relatives reached out to authorities, federal court documents show. CNN's Jake Tapper (https://www.cnn.com/profiles/jake-tapper-profile) reports.

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This is prior news, liberal leaning ThinkProgress coverage and graphics being shown in google news seemed too provocative. Is a small fringe view being given too much weightage in media headlines?


https://thinkprogress.org/pittsburgh-shooting-robert-bowers-white-supremacists-tree-of-life-synagogue-gab-bc3bf543991c/


These prominent white supremacists interacted with the Pittsburgh shooting suspect on social media

Robert Bowers shared an anti-Semitic post from a Republican candidate that urged "Get out there and save your people!"


In the aftermath of last weekend’s massacre (https://thinkprogress.org/multiple-casualties-reported-following-shooting-at-pittsburgh-synagogue-15ffae1c114b/) of 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue by an anti-Semite, an all-too-familiar refrain commonly heard made the rounds: The male suspect was a “lone wolf” (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/27/antisemitism-far-right-terrorism-hate-crimes) whose violence was unpredictable and thus couldn’t have been prevented.
President Donald Trump, who has regularly dabbled (https://thinkprogress.org/trump-tries-to-spin-anti-semitic-symbol-as-sheriffs-star-399076325ec/) in (https://www.nbcnews.com/card/anti-defamation-league-trump-ad-invokes-anti-semitic-tropes-n678686) or flat-out embraced (https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-george-soros-anti-semitic-conspiracy-theory-7962b3d02a86/) anti-Semitic tropes, expressed (https://www.npr.org/2018/10/31/662436272/trump-and-anti-semitism) surprise that anti-Semitism still existed in 2018 in his first public remarks (https://thinkprogress.org/trump-synagogue-shooting-should-have-had-armed-security-1b5dd501c344/) following what was likely the deadliest (https://twitter.com/justinjm1/status/1057088019629514752) anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
However, an analysis of the social media activity of Robert Bowers, who has been charged (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/suspect-in-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting-charged-in-44-count-hate-crime-indictment/2018/10/31/bf2be61c-dd36-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html) with federal hate crimes over last weekend’s massacre, revealed (https://thinkprogress.org/hate-breeding-social-network-robert-bowers-used-is-going-dark-for-now-cae01a4224e9/) that he trafficked in many of the conservative conspiracy theories about a migrant caravan (https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-republicans-immigration-migrant-caravan-2018-midterm-elections-d8e4226b8a21/) that have been rceently amplified by prominent Republicans, including Trump (https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-twitter-migrant-caravan-pittsburgh-shooting-robert-bowers-gab-f5f412c1a7ab/), Vice President Mike Pence (https://thinkprogress.org/mike-pence-migrant-caravan-middle-eastern-descent-62f2b558cdf2/), and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (https://thinkprogress.org/republicans-who-condemned-attempted-bombings-rarely-speak-out-trumps-anti-press-rhetoric-c0a5386cd7dc/) (R-CA).
Bowers frequented Gab, a social media platform that has become a sanctuary for (https://twitter.com/bungdan/status/1056630420689711104) white (https://twitter.com/bungdan/status/1056630120813813760) supremacists (https://twitter.com/bungdan/status/1056630420689711104) who are banned (https://twitter.com/bungdan/status/1056659344169693184) from Twitter. Bowers reportedly posted on Gab about his plan to kill Jewish people mere hours before the shooting.

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