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Payton Gendron and Dylann Roof's manifestos were distributed online before their attacks, and political-driven mass shooters like Payton Gendron and Dylann Roof released their manifestos. Audrey Hale is not like other recent ideologically driven mass shootings, according to experts. She did not self-publish online, and her writings are more likely about her personal grievances than partisan motivations for the attack. 'The aim of a manifesto is to broadcast one's ideas to the world,' said Jason Silva, an manifesto expert on manifestos from William Paterson University's Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice. Hale didn't post the manifesto on the internet. Which leaves me, as a mass shooting researcher, wondering: Is it an example of what we traditionally conceive of as a manifesto?'