1) This is Darren osborne.

He's a terrorist from Wales.

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2. He killed one person and injured 9 others.

By driving a van into a crowd of people who were leaving a mosque.

3. His girlfriend said that his islamophobic beliefs and radicalisation developed very fast.

She claimed he was radicalised in “a matter of weeks” before his attack.

4. Osborne joined Twitter on 3rd of June.

In the 2 weeks before his murder trial, he followed Tommy Robinson on Twitter (before he was banned).

On the 19th of June, he drove from Cardiff to London and carried out his attack. https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-42910051

5. Police searches of his devices found that he had been obsessively reading Infowars, Britain First and EDL content on social media in the weeks before his attack.

His girlfriend said in a statement that this was the period in which he was radicalised.

6. Were his opinions and views rare?

These are some comments on Facebook. From the time, by members of a right-wing Facebook group.

These people were commenting on the news that Darren Osborne had driven a van into a crowd of Muslim people and killed at least 1 person.

7. Dennis Gray

8. The language is very similar to how Islamic, or other, extremism is sometimes excused by tacit supporters.

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10. These appear to be real people, who are still on the Facebook platform, posting and commenting their views.

11. Grannyfascism

12. All are still on the Facebook platform.

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14. Censored for extreme hatred, but you get the idea.

Hosted on Facebook's product.

Facebook sold advertising space next to this content and profited from it.

15. He's still on Facebook.

16. There are thousands of comments like this. Constantly.

17. Still on Facebook.

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These users appear to be real people. They’re still on Facebook, 3 years later, still posting similar content.

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Online radicalisation is real.

Facebook groups and its polarising algorithm drive it.

It's worse in the developing world.

20. Welcome to the @TrollZoo