This journalist spent 3 years with alt-right trolls. This is what he learned

Journalist Andrew Marantz embedded with what he calls “dodgy characters on the internet” for three years to understand how they used social media to propel toxic ideas into the mainstream. In the aftermath of the 2016 election, it seemed to many like the rising tide of alt-right extremists had managed to hijack the national conversation to such an extent that they put their troll-in-chief—or God-Emperor, as some of Trump’s fans call him—in the White House. Read Full Story