In fact, the entire attack seemed orchestrated for the social media age. This was about the rise of white supremacy online and the power of social media in spreading that message. Social media has increasingly been co-opted by terrorists in recent years. But, hours after the attacks, CNN could still find the videos on social media platforms including Twitter. "If the terrorist video looks like a video game, it would be very hard for an automated classifier to tell the difference between that terrorist video and a video game," he says.

Source: CNN March 15, 2019 16:30 UTC