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Analyzing online posts could help spot future mass shooters and terrorists

  • Written by Neil Shortland, Director, Center for Terrorism and Security Studies; Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Can online posts help scholars – or police – tell the difference between people who are just ranting and those who plan real violence?Aggapom Poomitud/Shutterstock.com

In the weeks following two mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, police forces across the United States made more than 20 arrests based on threats made on...

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