“In the span of five years, they grew Terrorgram from a handful of accounts into a community with hundreds of chats and channels focused on recruiting would-be terrorists,”

https://gizmodo.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-terrorgram-inside-a-global-online-hate-network-2000576764

Shirky’s “Cognitive surplus” was supposed to mean people would do good creative things with their brains.