FBI Behavior Expert Robin Dreeke On Radicalization in Real Time: How Online Echo Chambers Fueled the Charlie Kirk Assassination

FBI Behavior Expert Robin Dreeke On Radicalization in Real Time:
How Online Echo Chambers Fueled the Charlie Kirk Assassin

How does a 22-year-old go from honor student to accused assassin?
In this powerful discussion on Hidden Killers Live, Tony Brueski,
Stacy Cole, Todd Michaels, and Robin Dreeke explore how online
radicalization happens in real time.

Dreeke explains how social media algorithms feed vulnerable young
people a steady diet of fear, negativity, and outrage — creating
echo chambers where violence is normalized. The conversation
explores how platforms like Discord and online gaming chats
become breeding grounds for extremist thinking, not through
shadowy “radicalizers,” but through peer-to-peer validation. The
suspect wasn’t groomed in a cave halfway around the world — he
was groomed in his own living room.

The team also examines foreign interference.
Drawing on his counterintelligence career, Dreeke explains
“active measures” — how Russia and other foreign powers exploit
America’s freedoms to sow distrust, disinformation, and division.
From bots to anonymous accounts, much of the online noise after
the assassination attempt appears designed to pit Americans
against each other.

Stacy raises a critical point: are today’s young people living in
a constant trauma response, marinated in fear from birth, without
tools to manage it? Robin agrees, pointing out how chronic fear
escalates into anger, rage, and ultimately violence when
curiosity and constructive outlets are missing.

This segment reveals how radicalization isn’t abstract
anymore — it’s woven into the everyday online world. And
without intervention, more young people may follow the same
dangerous path.

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