YouTube, Reddit and a body armor manufacturer were among the businesses that helped enable the gunman who killed 10 Black people in a racist attack at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket, according to a pair of lawsuits announced Wednesday. The complementary lawsuits filed by Everytown Law in state court in Buffalo claim that the massacre at Tops supermarket in May …
BUFFALO, N.Y. — Tech and social media giants like Facebook, Amazon and Google bear responsibility for radicalizing the Buffalo supermarket shooter, who was fueled by racist conspiracy theories he encountered online, the victim’s relatives said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The lawsuit says Gendron admits he became addicted to social media and was “lured, unsuspectingly, into a psychological vortex by …
CNN — Social media posts by the 18-year-old White man suspected of shooting and killing 10 people at a Buffalo supermarket Saturday reveal he had been planning his attack for months. Here are the latest developments: • Presidential visit: In Buffalo on Tuesday, President Joe Biden called the shooting “domestic terrorism – violence inflicted in the service of hate and …
Kathy Hochul speaks at True Bethel Baptist Church on Sunday, May 15, 2022, in Buffalo, N.Y. via Associated Press New York Gov. Kathy Hochul wants social media companies to “examine their policies” as Buffalo grapples with Saturday’s violent shooting massacre orchestrated by 18-year-old white supremacist Payton Gendron. In an interview with CNN host Dana Bash on Sunday, Hochul said social …
