After mass shootings, Google told Congress his arrest was progress. But the truth is complicated.

“I hate myself,” wrote a YouTube user named “The Hammer.”

“I am uglier than the El Paso shooter, and girls don’t like me, so I will murder as many people as I can. Thank you.”

A few days later, police tracked The Hammer down. His real name is Leo Arong Jr., a 45-year-old U.S. Army veteran, who is accused of making threats in the chat section of a PBS NewsHour livestream on YouTube. 

YouTube's parent company, Google, portrayed the arrest to Congress as a sign of progress. The year before, a 19-year-old made disturbing YouTube comments before murdering 17 people at his former high school in Parkland, Florida.  Read more...

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