Chase Hughes is a behavior and body language expert who has trained soldiers and diplomats on persuasion and communication. I’ve seen him on the four-man analyst channel The Behavior Panel, where the four experts discuss body language aspects of witnesses in recorded trials and subjects of popular interviews.

In the video above, Chase responds to some of the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder by saying we’re being manipulated by a covert elite who don’t care about anyone but themselves and want to divide us in order to control us.

This is a point of media literacy I think we all need. Our apps and algorithms are training us think in new ways and value new things. We think we’re still in control of the technology, but if we rejoice in the murderer of a political enemy, who isn’t a murderer or terrorist, who hasn’t warred against a neighboring country, but has only argued for policies and politicians—if we allow our machines to be identity gauges and outrage feeders—then we are not in control. We are feeding a faceless power that sees us as only a number.