Luigi Mangione and the terrifying speed of online hero worship in the digital age

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Anthropologist Max Horder explains how the internet has transformed how heroes and villains are created and how digital saints can be worshipped within hours of a violent act. He argues that social media echo chambers normalise support for 'resistance heroes' such as Luigi Mangione through religious-style iconography. Click through to watch the full video in which Max discusses how left-wing political violence is being normalised in America, the meme-ification of violent actors, and why academic research has ignored this trend for decades. #SocialMedia #Memes #DigitalCulture #LuigiMangioni