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The Story Is Offline

New York magazine|December 16-29, 2024
Alleged murderer Luigi Mangione left a digital trail but no answers.
- John Herrman
The Story Is Offline

AS SOON AS THE IDENTITY of Luigi Mangione, the man alleged to have shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was revealed, the online hunt-a familiar collective ritual-began. The basic dossier came together fast: Mangione had accounts on X, on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Goodreads. There was, maybe, a Tinder profile; finding his Reddit took a day. Reporters and social-media users noted possible retrospective red flags, eerie fragments of information, and small ironies. On Goodreads, Mangione had posted a contrarian, and favorable, response to Ted Kaczynski's manifesto. Was it evidence of violent tendencies? He'd reviewed a couple of books about back pain, and on Reddit, he wrote about suffering from a spinal condition. He was a member of a sub-Reddit devoted to efficient backpacks: Had he been planning in plain sight all along? On X, he posted about artificial intelligence and followed some anti-woke pundits: Had Mangione tumbled down a slippery slope? Was he black-pilled? Some sort of accelerationist? The frenzy to assign meaning to his extensive output, however, soon collided with a surprising reality: His online presence was mostly normal. One could spend hours reading his posts, sifting through his follows, and assembling a profile of his profiles, but the supportable theories would be pretty thin. The way Mangione presented himself on the internet was consonant with his identity and context as a 20-something striver with one foot in the tech industry.

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