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Elle Reeve on the Charlie Kirk Shooting Suspect’s Inscrutable Memes


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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.

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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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