cover of episode Elle Reeve recounts the Capitol riot and her interviews with Trump supporters who were radicalized on the internet

Elle Reeve recounts the Capitol riot and her interviews with Trump supporters who were radicalized on the internet

2021/1/9
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CNN correspondent Elle Reeve tells Brian Stelter what she witnessed in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, January 6, from the Save America March near the White House to the riot at the Capitol. She examines the process of MAGA media radicalization that led up to the insurrection and the links to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in August 2017. Reeve explains how her team members were able to move nimbly through the mob and says the people were not all "Internet basement dwellers." She says "I don't think, as a culture, we've grappled with the way social media is a brainwashing machine."

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