seen before. so we need to focus on specific individuals than the idea of lot of people get radicalized by a mere cult violence. that is the history of radicalization. well juliette, i appreciate your expertise. thank you for taking time with us today. and thank you for being with us on friday. i ll see you back here on monday. follow me on twitter at ana cabrera. i hope you have a great weekend. good friday afternoon, thanks for joining me here, i m eric hill, richter and alisyn is off today. confusion and fatigue as we head into the holidays. new cases are on the rise. excuse me. the delta variant still dominant but omicron has now been identifiedn at least 40 states. puerto rico and washington, d.c. the good news, dr. fauci said you can protect yourself. how? get that booster.
always going to be there and the social media platforms can show their concern for our children if they actually got more focused on the real radicalization that is going on online. one of the things tik tock mentions in the response is the concern that the media coverage characterizing this could unintentionally cause someone to do an act. there is this thing about copycats. it is not i think we overexaggerate it. the idea that someone that didn t have those thoughts before, or might not have been before, all of a sudden wakes up one day and said it is a day to do violence is very rare. and what we find in most of the cases is all of the metrics were already there, well before there is a there is anything going on on social media, the person has access to guns, they are expressing a desire to go into a school and shoot people as wee