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Nope, they asked him to give all information about everyone who posted about the attack (after the fact) viewed the video or read the manifesto. This was right about the time that their government was tracking down people in the country who merely viewed the video and arresting them. (remember that people spent months and years in prison for just viewing the video)

The media, with the same disregard for the facts as they have now and here when talking about the site, simply made up their own narrative as they went along. Some reported the truth, others made it look ambiguous and other intentionally reported it to sound like the information was related to the killer, or even to sound like the killer was a member of the site. When in fact he was not, nor was the site ever even mentioned by him.




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