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In 2017, Elle Reeve, then a correspondent for Vice News, became a household name when she reported from the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia—as neo-Nazis marched with burning torches and a white supremacist drove his car into a crowd of counterprotesters.
Reeve has developed an expertise on what you might call the fringe beat, covering shadowy internet groups and right-wing political movements for CNN.
Those worlds collided when a very online man assassinated the right-wing political star Charlie Kirk in a meme-drenched attack that left much of the media world mystified. Reeve joins The Kicker to help make sense of it all.
Listen below, or at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
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*Elle recently spoke about interviewing extreme figures with CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan
*Black Pill, Elle’s 2024 book on her journeys into the “darkest corners of the internet”
*“Charlottesville: Race and Terror,” the 2017 Vice News documentary
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