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Emanuel Stoakes

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Emanuel Stoakes is a freelance journalist with a background in human rights and conflict reporting in Asia, now based in Christchurch. He has written for a range of outlets including The Guardian, The Washington Post, The New Humanitarian, Foreign Policy and The Spinoff.

A bullet hole near the synagogue in Halle, eastern Germany, where an anti-semitic attack took place in October 2019. (Photo by Ronny Hartmann / AFP)

Murder as ‘spectacle’: the alarming links between the Christchurch attack and those that followed

A string of lone actor, far-right copycat atrocities provide important clues to the kind of online movement we now confront.

By Emanuel Stoakes | 10th August, 2020