Many times I have looked up specs on various firearms online because I just like firearms. And several times after thinking I found a relevant article or post, after a few paragraphs I realized something was wrong. And what was wrong is that what I was reading was not real at all but a post on a gaming social media hub, referring to "virtual" firearms where the games actually include a lot of detail about weapons and and their specs I had to read through several paragraphs before I realized that someone was talking about a video game. Of course on those platforms people also talk about things that happen in video games like casualties and wounds and missions, etc.
So what if someone use those same social media platforms talk about a real occurrence? It would be the perfect place to do so because most of the goofballs posting there would assume that they were just reading about another video game. And that is how such handlers could communicate with such people. Both Thomas Crooks and Tyler Robinson were deeply into that stuff. And that is a VERY important connection, IMO.
And did you know that Thomas Crooks and Bowers, the guy who shot up the synagogue in Pittsburgh and got the death penalty, BOTH lived about 4 miles from each other? Very convenient for handlers if they had handlers. A very spooky coincidence.