Preventing the spread of the document is another difficult issue for platforms. “Livestreaming provides a unique challenge on the content moderation-front,” he said, because it requires live video monitoring and content detection. “They often will still seek out a more mainstream platform to try to broadcast and then circulate manifestos on some of the more underbelly-type places,” he said. Jared Holt, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, said shooters will often strategically choose platforms to use in their attacks.
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“It does seem as though this person could have used these forums to learn how to best approach this act of violent extremism and how to maximize the potential to cause as many injuries and as much death as possible,” he said. O’Connor said shooters can use such communities devoted to guns and tactical gear to plan their attacks. In a statement, a Discord representative said, "We extend our deepest sympathies to the victims and their families, and are doing everything we can to assist law enforcement in the investigation.” Images that were said to be screenshots of the same account posting in a different Discord server showed the user making what appeared to be a to-do list related to the shooting. In the online document, the suspect also referred to the Discord chat platform and a community on it centered on guns and armor called “plate land.” In chat logs archived from the server by the nonprofit media organization Unicorn Riot, a user with the same username and avatar as the account that streamed the shooting on Twitch sought advice about combat gear in the “plate land” community. Officers guard the crime scene outside Tops supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., on Sunday evening. Reddit did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A tactical gear subreddit where the user would post also restricted access without issuing a statement. A community devoted to precious metal trading the user frequented temporarily shut down public access to the subreddit, writing that the moderators wanted to prevent harassment of people who may have interacted with the suspect. Several subreddits frequented by the user responded to the shooting on a community level. The last post was Saturday morning in a subreddit devoted to ammunition.
On Reddit, a now-suspended user with the same username as the Twitch account that livestreamed the attack frequently posted to subreddits devoted to guns, tactical gear, ammunition, precious metal trading and other topics.
The suspect also appears to have been involved in other online communities on more mainstream platforms.
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