The new report From George Washington University’s Program on Extremism by Lorenzo Vidino and Seamus Hughes, Isis in America: From Retweets to Raqqa, provides much valuable information and one paragraph that’s surreal:
“Perhaps the most puzzling is the case of Joshua Ryne Goldberg, a 20-year-old Jewish Floridian who was arrested in September 2015 for distributing information relating to a bomb plot targeting a 9/11 memorial ceremony in Kansas City. Goldberg had multiple online personas: an ISIS-affiliated Australian jihadist, a white supremacist, a feminist, and a free-speech radical. Regardless of his life as a virtual troll, Goldberg did nonetheless provide an individual, who unbeknownst to Goldberg was an FBI informant, with instructions for constructing a bomb from a pressure cooker filled with nails.”
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