All language subtitles for Dark Net - 01x07 - Provoke.CURIOSITY.English.HI.orig.Addic7ed.com

[Narrator]
The Web transforms us.

We become data...

code...

uploading our very selves...

...to a place
we call the cloud.

But this cloud is grounded
in hardware, a chaos of code.

But with the right tools,

you can find the signal
in the noise.

[man]
Everything is on YouTube.

Everything is on Facebook
and Twitter,

but the world of social media
is a step removed from reality.

[Mikki]
These are people who would not

say these things to your face,

but they will say them to you
behind a computer screen.

[Hardiman] If you disrespect
somebody on Facebook,

thousands of people see that post.

Now this guy
wants to get some revenge.

[Mitchell] For young people,
image is everything.

I seen people arrested, assaulted.

I've seen people killed

because of what they put up
on social media.

[Narrator]
Whatever's on your mind,

you can post it online.

Your beliefs, your fears,

your life, your style.

But when you express yourself
in here,

you expose yourself out there.

To hate.

Say your piece on social media,
and you might incite a war.

Make your mark online,

and you might
make yourself a target.

[Horns honking]

[Khalil] East New York is the
only neighborhood that I know

that there could be
a shoot-out one day

and then by that next morning,

everybody be right back outside

and just going like
nothing ever happened.

[Mitchell] This is where
the crime is most highest.

This is where the homicide
rates, unfortunately,

are still the most highest.

One of the most dangerous
places in New York City.

My name is Andre T. Mitchell.

I am the founder
and Executive Director

for Man Up! Incorporated.

[Narrator] Man Up!'s goal
is simple but elusive --

to try and curb the bloodshed
in their own backyard.

And they're focusing on
neighborhood teens like Khalil.

I wanted you to take a time-out
from your daily responsibilities

to have a conversation
around social media

and the issue of violence.

Your generation
is so Internet-involved.

Like, how many of you
would honestly say

that you live in the social media?

The majority of you.

So when there's this beef, right?

When somebody have issues --
"I got issue with that person."

First place you identify
or know about it is where?

- [Teens] Facebook.
- Facebook.

Do you see people beefing
literally?

Yeah. Like, they
cursin' each other out.

"Meet me here."
- Mm-hmm.

Other friends jumpin' in.
All that. It's --

- Out there.
- It's all-out war.

So we see it escalating.

We see something materializing
in front of your face.

[Man] Oh!

[Mitchell]
Violence is the end-thing.

- Bitch!
- Get him!

[man] Whoa!

[Mitchell] People feed off of
violent situations,

fights that they see,

'cause if they get to
post that fight,

it makes them a popular person.

On social media, it will
start off as like a pride thing,

like, somebody try to diss you
in front of somebody,

then it's just like, on Facebook,

like, and then people comment,
and...

[narrator]
Social media is platform

for self-representation,

a place to pose as
someone you're not.

Or to express who
you really are, unfiltered.

[Jamie] Social media has

allowed folks to find their voice,

to have that freedom
in that community

and to have that safe space

where you can talk about
things that matter to you.

It's important,
and it makes a difference.

[Narrator] This is Jamie,

a freelance journalist,
wife, and mother.

Ooh!

You can drive that truck.

This one?

I had an interest in
writing comics.

I wrote this script
in about three days.

And they accepted it,

and I'm like,
"I love this job!"

[Laughter]

[Narrator] And this is Mikki
who's also a writer

and a long-time friend of
Jamie, both online and off.

[Jamie] We are inveterate
jokers with each other.

We have a very

"Laverne & Shirley"
sort of relationship.

[Laughs]

Partners in crime.

[Both laugh]

They make Key Lime cupcakes
with a raspberry swirl.

Am I getting any?

I don't know yet.

[Narrator]
They publish their work online,

so social media has been
their key to success.

One hashtag Mikki drafted,
♪solidarityisforwhitewomen,

became, for a time,

the world's top-trending
hashtag on Twitter.

Now combined, they have
over 50,000 followers

with a reach of over
8 million people...

...a viewing audience triple
the population of Chicago.

[Mikki] So I use Twitter
to discuss social issues.

I tend to talk a lot about
police brutality, feminism,

race, representation in media.

People either love me
or they hate me.

I am visibly black and female
on the Internet.

And there's a certain amount
of racist "how dare you"

that tends to come pouring out
of people.

Women of color online

are generally seen
as a nuisance, I think.

I am "the angry black woman,"
even when I'm not angry.

Loud, obnoxious, you know,
overly concerned with race,

blah, blah, blah.
I mean...

You can't just be a person
in the eyes of some people.

It's kind of borderline abusive,

especially when you are
vocal about

things like race and gender.

So I might be a nigger bitch,

or a dumb nigger ho,
or like, whore.

"You know,
I bet if you got some dick,

you wouldn't act the way you do

or you wouldn't be
such a mouthy bitch."

"I'll gut your kids in
front of you before I kill you."

"Someone should rape you."

"Someone should take you out back

and beat some sense into you."

Things like that.

[Narrator] What they're
talking about are trolls --

people who go online
to antagonize others.

Their presence permeates
every corner of the web,

and these haters are
more connected to each other

than you may realize.

On places like reddit

and other online bulletin boards,

trolls post how-to guides.

They praise each other's work

and look to one another
for inspiration.

[Jamie] I don't read
the comments section

on a lot of the stuff I write

because I don't want to deal.

It has changed
how I use social media.

I'm a lot more reluctant
to broach certain subjects

or talk about certain things

because of the blowback.

[narrator] No one
wants to feel constrained

when voicing their opinions
on the web.

So one day,
Jamie got a little creative.

[Jamie]
I was talking with a friend,

and they dared me to be white
for a week.

I was like, "Psht.
I can do that."

I Googled like,
some random white dude.

I put him in my avi.

In terms of conversation,

say the same things I've been
saying as a black woman.

And the way that folks
interacted with me

was like night and day.

I was much more reasonable
and easy to talk to.

What started out as a joke

really became my way of
protecting myself online.

And you know,
it's become like a shield.

[narrator]
While some use social media

to shield themselves from hate,

for others, it's a weapon

of provocation, persuasion,
and war.

[Horns honking]

[Man] The minute you start to
form relationships

with computers and usernames,

you start to lose
your moral compass.

[narrator] This man doesn't
want you to know his name

or see his face.

It's too risky.

[man]
I've got a lived experience

through my own understanding
of what extremism did to me.

An incredible journey

in between isolation,
anger, grievance, hate

and the support, potentially,
for violence.

[narrator] This former jihadi
has found a new calling --

deploying inside knowledge
of the recruitment

and radicalization
of Muslim youth.

He is now working to
combat extremism online

through a character
that conceals his identity

while animating his message.

Meet Abdullah-X.

What I can't understand, though,

is the pure hate
and indiscriminate violence,

that somehow, these people
attempt to justify

through my religion.

[Man] The character
was created to reach

parts of the dark,
deep online domain

that strategic communications
are never going to reach.

There's no doubt that
most of the recruitment

and processes of radicalization

that particularly young people
are facing --

it's happening in the online space

through various
kind of social media.

I was created to safeguard
some young Muslims

from falling into the trap of
believing their own hype.

What gives you life is jihad.

[Abdullah-X] The regime
you are trying to topple

actually helped create you.

[Siren wails]

[Narrator] For every attack,
for every action,

Abdullah-X posts a reaction.

[Abdullah-X]
We're not irrational beings

who have no agency.

We do get to decide.

[Narrator]
A call to conscience.

[Abdullah-X]
We don't just condemn it.

We hold you responsible --

the so-called Islamic State.

Your deeds are your doing.

We hold you to blame.

It is the first digital war.

It's the first war waged online.

[Singing in native language]

[Narrator] It's a war
for hearts and minds

and cliques.

Around half of ISIS' social
media is not violent at all.

It's propaganda --

much of it aimed at young
Muslims adrift in the west.

[man]
This kind of jihadi narrative

in the online space
on social media --

it appears like some kind of

glorified kind of golden age.

You've listened to a few
online videos on YouTube

and you think that there is

something known as
the Islamic State

that you need to die for.

There is a growing number
of young Muslims

who feel grievances around
identity, around belonging,

around loyalty, around duty.

What is right, what is wrong,

what is violence, what is extreme,

what is acceptable,
what are values.

To the lies and hate
spewed out by extremists,

we are not stupid.

We are brave.

[Man] What we're trying to do

is create that moment of doubt

deep-down in that
young person's mind.

[narrator] A moment of doubt,

a moment of caution,

an interruption.

It's what Andre
and his team at Man Up!

are trying to do
in East New York --

interrupt the cycle of violence.

[Mitchell] In this briefing,
we just want to make sure

that we have a better
understanding

of what's going on on both sides.

[Narrator] Many of these men

are reformed criminals themselves

and well-connected
to the streets.

It's Friday,
so we're gonna try to hit

most of our target hot zones,
do some canvassing.

Let's just be really, really,
really, really safe out there.

[Washington] The role of
a Violence Interrupter

is to mediate beef.

They hear about a beef,
they get right on it,

and God forbid,
if somebody was to get shot,

their job is to
prevent retaliations.

What's up?

Our last incident was 17 days ago.

Since then, it's been quiet.

Allegedly, both parties
have been on defense,

so there hasn't been
a retaliation.

Social media has become a way
to see certain things coming,

and then if it's somebody
that's close to me,

or if it's a friend
or they beefing with a friend,

you know, if I feel like
I could be, you know, a help

to try to de-escalate it
or resolve it, I will.

- What's wrong with them?
- Man, nothing.

Niggas.

Everything good, though, fellas?

Yeah, we cool.

It's good to see you, though, man.

[Woman] Yeah.
And he finished school.

Y'all know he finished school.
- Word? Staying out of trouble.

We need to get on board,
you heard?

- All right.
- All right.

[Narrator] Man Up!
uses Facebook and Twitter

to check the pulse of the street,

but they're not the only ones.

Eight out of every 10
law enforcement professionals

patrol social media --

a new form of
digital stop-and-frisk.

[Mitchell]
I've seen people arrested

because of their affiliation
in their social networks

because they may have been,
you know, a person in a picture,

part of an alleged group of sorts.

And it's incriminating.

It's like you burying yourself.

You know, the Prosecutor's Office,

the District Attorney's Offices

are using this
to help convict people.

[narrator] There's even a law
on the books in California,

Penal Code Section 182-185,

that a person who willfully
promotes, furthers,

assists, or benefits
from a gang crime

can be charged with conspiracy.

[Washington] We're just not

sharing information
with the police.

Our job is not
to get nobody locked up.

Our job is to keep our
participants out on the streets

and get them on the right path.

[Siren wails]

[Narrator]
Different streets, same avenue.

Here on the South Side of Chicago,

what you post on social media
can make you rich

and it can get you killed.

[White] You take everyday life
in the streets --

weapons, the drugs.

Basically,
the streets inspire the music.

[Record scratching]

♪♪

[Indistinct rapping]

And then you make it into a song

and you take all your anger

and you turn it into
hyperactivity.

My name is Eric White.
I go by the name --

My stage name is IMGBF.

Check. 1, 2, 1, 2.
Mike check.

Mike check.
Sounds like my mike's nice.

All right, let's go. Come on,
we got to get rich, man.

- Let's go, baby. Come on, man.
- This is how we get rich.

- This is money, baby.
- Let's get it.

♪ If I throw her bandz,
she gon' drop it low ♪

♪ When she do a dance,
she take off her clothes ♪

♪ When she do a handstand,
girl, get on the floor ♪

♪ Let me see you bend over,
girl, touch your toes ♪

♪ Like, bust it, bust it, bust
it open for a real nigga ♪

♪ Cuff a bad chick and show you
how to deal with her ♪

♪ Hey ♪

Damn, boy.

- [Laughs]
- Yeah.

That's what I'm talking about.

That's that million-dollar day,
baby.

[Hardiman] Well,
a lot of young rappers feel

if they get anywhere from
100,000 to 1 million views

on their YouTube video,

the record industry's
gonna take notice

and they might strike a big deal.

My name is Tio Hardiman,

President of Violence
Interrupters, Incorporated.

[Siren wails]

Some of the guys are trying to

put more violence in
their videos than ever before

because they want to be as seen as

the guy that's gonna
go over and beyond

to make themselves look like

they're tougher than most people.

[Narrator] Violence, drugs,
and sex aren't anything new

when it comes to music videos,

but this is a new rap genre
spread by social media

called drill music.

♪ Fuckin' with them homeboys,
you gon' get fucked over ♪

♪ I'm insane ♪

♪ You know what's crackin',
homey ♪

♪ I heard a nigga snitchin'
gon' get tied up ♪

♪ -Tied up
- Bitch, run ♪

[Narrator] Here, the lyrics
hold a hidden message.

Drill means kill.

Clique is a gang.

And cobra is a revolver.

Social media has become
the new Hollywood.

A lot of young people,
the mind-set today

is if I shoot somebody,

I'm gonna be looked at
like a hood superstar.

And the music helps escalate

some of the violence
right now in Chicago.

People take it personal
in their drill music.

You know, when you start
saying names and everybody else,

then that's when
it's taken too far.

[Hardiman]
The drill music artists --

a lot of them think it's just,
you know, entertainment,

but when you out here
rapping violent lyrics,

you know, out here to the public,

guys are looking at them,

and the next thing you know,
somebody loses their life.

Facebook and Twitter
gang-banging.

That's what it is --
is cyber gang-banging.

[Chuckles]
That's what it comes down to.

[Narrator] The tension
between some cliques

has recently escalated.

Rumors are
that a rapper named Capo,

a member of the Glo Gang,

was provoking a rival clique
in his lyrics and tweets.

[White]
Capo was a former rap member --

he was associated with Chief Keef.

He got signed to a record label.

I just saw the talent in him
at a young age.

♪ This that Chicago,
Chiraq shit ♪

♪ Better keep a gun ♪

♪ And it can happen any time,
don't matter where... ♪

[Hardiman]
From what I'm hearing,

I'm talking to some people,
that Capo was, you know, like,

basically was trying to, like,
call some people out.

I cannot confirm that.

[man] He was coming down
the street with backpack on,

with his dreads on, walking.

I don't know if the car
turned around a corner,

I don't know
if it came down the street,

but I know he came up Kingston.

He was walking.

A cop pulled up, and
they started shooting at him.

Hit him. He fell.

Boom, boom, boom, boom,
boom, boom, boom, boom.

[Gunshot]

[White] I was perusing through
my Facebook

and then I saw a video of him
actually laying there,

you know, bleeding and everything.

[woman]
She said we got to keep him low.

[Man] Whoa.
You got to keep compressions.

Come on.

Come on. Please.

- Yes, they did, man.
- No.

- Damn, man!
- They hit him in his chest.

[White] It was brutal, I mean,
even though I'm out here,

it was like
I was actually right there.

I posted it.

I said "R.I.P. Capo,
bro will be missed."

[narrator]
Social media has become

an electronic graffiti wall,

a place to post messages
and provoke a reaction.

And after Capo's death,
to pay respects.

But it's also a forum

for unspeakable expressions
of disrespect --

the cruel eulogies
of heartless trolls.

[Mikki] They call it griefing,

where they go after someone
who's talking about

a recent loss in the family,
that kind of thing.

And they one-up each other.

It's a game to them, like,
they're getting off

on knowing that
they're freaking someone out.

They're not thinking about
the person on the other end

and what impact
they might be having.

There are people savvy enough
to make bots, you know,

so that even when they can't
actually be trolling,

they can still be

theoretically harassing someone,
upsetting someone.

[Narrator]
Bots are software tools

that run automated tasks
on the Internet.

Some trolls are
making their own bots,

programming code into a weapon.

If the bot detects certain terms

or hashtags like ♪feminism,

then it will post a hateful
comment automatically.

It allows trolls
to scale up their hate

to keep the vitriol spewing 24/7.

Well, two can play that game.

I'm about activate my own account.

[Narrator] Jamie and Mikki

are squaring off
against the trolls

with a bot of their own,
nicknamed Porschia.

The hope is to wear the trolls
down at their own game,

an endless loop of "I know
you are, but what am I?"

[Mikki] Basically, I just
want the bot to tie them up,

to keep them busy
so that they think

they're getting their little
buzz of bothering someone.

Mm-hmm.

Here's how it works.

If a troll posts a hateful message

threatening to rape them,

then their bot will respond
with a rape statistic.

For this test,
they're using a dummy account

and a more family-friendly
term --

tomato.

We're just test-driving
with the word "tomato."

We're not gonna do anything
really offensive right now.

Okay, so we're gonna
test it on yours,

and then we can start putting in
terms on the spreadsheet

that makes the bot go.

We'll make sure the bot works,

and then once we know that
it responds and does the mute,

then we'll update the spreadsheet

the bot draws terms from

so that we'll put stuff like
"nigger," "nigger bitch"...

- "Race baiter".
- "Race baiter,"

"professional nigger,"
um..."libtard."

Mm-hmm.

What else am I called a lot?

"Whore" and "slut" 'cause
someone's gonna call me that.

All right, sending the tweet now.

- All right.
- Send your tweet.

Okay, I am not --

We have to wait a minute, right?
- Right.

'Cause I still don't see anything.

It has to be
a human amount of time.

All right.

I just got a response from
Porschia to @whiteboxheaven

that says "The tomato is a fruit.

Here's the Wikipedia article
for tomatoes."

So it works.
- Yes!

[Both laugh]

Yes!

So now we can update the
spreadsheet with actual terms

that we are likely to get
and actual responses.

They can talk to the bot
for that three or four tweets.

The bot doesn't care.
- Mm-hmm.

The bot won't get mad.
And then they're muted.

And we never have to
see them again.

[Chuckles]

[Narrator]
For better and for worse,

social media
gives all of us a voice.

Jamie and Mikki have found
a way to at least mute

some of the shrill
and hateful voices.

But humans aren't bots.

And social media has become
an essential tool

of self-expression,

self-promotion,

self-obsession.

We're digitizing identity itself

into a curated impression

of who we are,

who we want to be.

Whatever you do
when you're online,

you write your history.

You punch those buttons,

so there are consequences
to every action.

[man] We keep pushing
young people in between,

with us or against us.

Us or them.

Which decision do we think
they're gonna make

in a world that is
increasingly polarized?

[narrator]
Will they, will we, will you

choose to start a fight

or stop one?

[Mitchell] Whoever you are
drawing yourself out

to become online,

maybe your children one day,
in the future,

will hold this up to you and say

"Mom or Dad,
was this really you?"

And you're gonna have to
answer to it.

♪♪