Prevent Mass Shootings withAI-Powered Social Media Monitoring
Would-be mass shooters often announce their intentions online. These publicannouncements are chilling, but they provide a path to ending the carnage.

Before murdering 10 Black people at a Tops Friendly
supermarket in Buffalo, N.Y., the white supremacist
shooter announced his plans online in his Discord
journal.1 He credited the hate speech of 4Chan for
motivating the 2022 attack. Before killing 23 people
at a Texas Walmart in 2019, the murderer declared hisintentions in a manifesto posted to social media.2Since 2015, more than 19,000 Americas have beenwounded or killed in mass shootings. More than 600
were killed and 2,700 wounded in 2022 alone.3 Wouldbe shooters often announce their intentions online.4
These public announcements are chilling, but they
provide a path to ending the carnage.

AI-powered social media
monitoring helps stop massshootings
Babel Street Insights is an AI-powered data analytics
platform that can help prevent mass shootings throughexamination of publicly available information such associal media posts, forum comments appearing on thedeep and dark web, and more. When law enforcement
officials spot threatening posts, they can takeappropriate action to stop would-be mass shooters —potentially averting catastrophe.
This capability is not theoretical. In early 2023, aBabel Street client spotted an online post in which
the writer threatened a mass shooting — even naming
the individuals he planned to target. Using pivotal
information generated by the Babel Street Insights
platform, law enforcement officials tracked down
the would-be murderer. The man, who had accessto firearms and hand grenades, was arrested before
he could put his plan into action. Similar Babel Street
Insights capabilities helped European law enforcement
spot and monitor a man whose posts indicated heplanned to shoot up a family planning center.
The Babel Street Insights platform rapidly andpersistently scans dozens of social media platforms;
real time interactions generated on millions of message
boards; online comments; and other publicly available
and commercially available information to identify
key words and terms associated with threats of mass

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shooting — and to alert law enforcement officials andothers of those threats. Babel Street Insights can thenbe used by law enforcement to gain a more precise
understanding of the person behind the online username. Advertising technology-based geolocationand telemetry data is also available to qualifying
government organizations.

Persistent search is a technologythat keeps a search operation open
whether someone is using it or not,recording updates and changes,
then automatically appending thisBabel Street Insights empowers law enforcement
officials to gain deeper insight into the people behind
online threats — providing powerful investigative
assistance to front-line professionals working to keep
our communities safe.

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1 Suciu, Peter, “Social Media Increasingly Linked to Mass Shootings,” Forbes.com, May 2022, https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2022/05/25/social-media-increasingly-linked-with-massshootings/?sh=45b045aa3c73
2 Lee, Morgan and Weber, Paul J., “The Texas Shooter in a Racist Walmart Attack is Going to Prison: Here’s What You Need to Know About the Case,” Associated Press, July 2023, https://apnews.com/article/elpaso-walmart-texas-crusius-bf7d25f3567959ee8b121deabcf1d9a1
3 Everytown for Gun Safety, “Mass Shooting in the United States,” accessed July 2023, https://everytownresearch.org/mass-shootings-in-america/#:~:text=Since%202015%2C%20over%2019%2C000%20people,mass%20shooting%20incidents%20in%202021
4 Peterson, J., Densley, J., Spaulding, J., & Higgins, S., “How Mass Public Shooters Use Social Media: Exploring Themes and Future Direction,” Social Media + Society, accessed July 2023,
https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231155101

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