"Going back to Renee Good, the idea that there was an ICE agent that was filming while involved in this life-or-death-you know, supposedly for him-situation, right? You're claiming that, but at the same time you're using your phone to document this."
"Yeah, I've never had a law-enforcement agent pull up their assumedly personal smartphone and film me. I've never seen that -to have them just, like, have a gun in one hand and a phone in the other blew my mind. And I just have to wonder, Where is that content going? Where are those photos and videos going?"
"I'm Charlie Warzel. Welcome to Galaxy Brain. Around 2015, I started to do a lot of reporting on the ways that the internet was causing a societal rupture. It's possible, I think, that for Americans-and maybe for everybody-that there's never been a true shared reality. That we have always been living, in some respect, in filter bubbles of our own making, even before the internet."
Internet fragmentation of attention and facts has spilled into real-world political violence in Minneapolis, where viral content and online narratives produced consequential government responses. A right-wing video alleging day-care fraud circulated widely and preceded aggressive ICE activity in the region. After the shooting of Renee Nicole Good, observers noted altered behaviors: law enforcement and protesters increasingly film and digitally organize, and officers sometimes record incidents on personal smartphones while armed. A feedback loop has formed in which online content spurs interventions that generate further material, amplifying division and uncertainty about what is true.
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