YouTube shooting: Woman angry at ‘filtered’ videos identified as suspect

The woman suspected of being behind Tuesday’s shooting at YouTube headquarters is a vegan bodybuilder who used the video-sharing website regularly in years past — and once posted a clip claiming her content was being “discriminated and filtered,” a report says.

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Nasim Aghdam, 39, of Southern California, is said to be the deceased suspect, according to NBC Bay Area’s Investigative team.

San Bruno police have confirmed that identification, and Associated Press reported investigators believe Aghdam used the name “Nasime Sabz” online. She is thought to have had a long-running dispute with YouTube.

She apparently had her own YouTube channel — under the name “Nasim Wonder 1” — which she used to promote her healthy living style and hatred for animal abuse.

YouTube, which is a unit of Alphabet Inc. GOOG, +0.69%   , GOOGL, +0.60%  employs about 2,000 people at its San Bruno offices.

Aghdam also let her voice be heard on Facebook Inc. FB, +0.46%  -owned Instagram, where she posted photos and videos on a weekly basis.

“What do you think about freedom of speech and does it really exist in western countries!?” she captioned one video, posted on March 25.

The issue of free speech was apparently very important to Aghdam — and one she spoke about constantly while criticizing YouTube, NBC reports.

“Be aware,” she wrote in a post from 2017, which was reportedly published on her personal webpage.

“There is no free speech in real world, and you will be suppressed for telling the truth that is not supported by the system,” Aghdam said. “Videos of targeted users are filtered and merely relegated, so that people can hardly see their videos.”

A version of this report first appeared on NYPost.com.