Memes, manifestos and 4chan — making sense of a toxic online culture

It’s All Journalism producer Michael O’Connell interviews writer and artist Dale Beran about his new book, It Came from Something Awful — How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office. Beran tries to explain the toxic online culture that sprang out of a website created for fans of Japanese animation and how it’s impacted the real world, including the 2016 presidential election.

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