The Trump shooting: what happened and what’s next

On Saturday, July 13th, a 20-year-old named Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate erstwhile President Donald Trump astatine a rally successful Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. Though the shooter’s motives are inactive unknown, the governmental ramifications of the effort are spreading rapidly crossed the internet. Images and on-the-ground reporting circulated rapidly crossed societal media platforms, arsenic did monolithic amounts of mendacious information. Tech companies are trying to curb misinformation arsenic users scramble to find answers astir what happened and why, becoming 1 of the largest and astir urgent contented moderation problems successful years.

• The Trump rally shooter had a Discord account, institution says

  

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  The idiosyncratic who attempted to assassinate erstwhile President Donald Trump during a rally connected Saturday had a Discord relationship — though it was seldom utilized — according to the company.

  “Discord removed the relationship according to our off-platform behaviour policy and we are assisting instrumentality enforcement successful their investigation,” Clint Smith, main ineligible serviceman of Discord, said successful an emailed statement. “The suspect’s relationship was seldom utilized, has not been utilized successful months, and we person recovered nary grounds that it was utilized to program this incident, beforehand violence, oregon sermon his governmental views, but with the probe ongoing, we are not capable to stock immoderate further accusation astatine this time.” Discord didn’t respond to The Verge’s questions astir however it traced the relationship and what communities the relationship was portion of.

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• FBI is moving to interruption into the telephone of the Trump rally shooter

  

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  Investigators are moving to interruption into the telephone of the antheral who changeable astatine erstwhile President Donald Trump astatine a Pennsylvania rally connected Saturday. The shooting is being probed arsenic an assassination attempt.

  The FBI said successful a statement that it had obtained the shooter’s telephone “for examination.” Officials told reporters successful a league telephone connected Sunday, as reported by The New York Times, that agents successful Pennsylvania were incapable to interruption into the phone. It’s been shipped to the FBI’s laboratory successful Quantico, Virginia, wherever the FBI hopes to get past the phone’s password protection, the Times reported.

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