The Era of Unreportable Terror

In real time, we’re watching the darkest digital denizens manipulate media and get away with it

Jamie Cohen

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On the morning of August 19, diehard Trump supporter Floyd Ray Roseberry parked his truck outside the Library of Congress. He turned on his cellphone camera and began to livestream on Facebook. For five hours, Roseberry held a standoff with police as his pickup truck allegedly held enough explosives to level the block. He was still there when University of Wisconsin student Sydney Bobb walked by and photographed the man…

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Jamie Cohen

Digital culture expert and meme scholar. Cultural and Media Studies PhD. Internet studies educator: social good, civic engagement and digital literacies