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Why we should have seen the Capitol riots coming
Brut America
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3/25/2025
"Everything we saw online kind of came true."
Extremism experts have been warning about the growing danger of far-right extremists for years. Then the Capitol riots happened…
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Today is a day I never could have imagined in my service as a member of the U.S. House,
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and I believe it's a day no American could have imagined.
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Lawmakers and law enforcement continue to kind of take a almost dismissive approach to
00:16
online organizing, particularly when it comes to extremism.
00:19
It can result in terrifying situations like we saw at the Capitol on January 6th.
00:30
In the
00:56
immediate days before the protest, we saw users sharing maps of entry points into the
01:02
U.S. Capitol.
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We saw discussions of the weapon laws that exist in Washington, D.C., and different ways
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to potentially get around those weapon laws, and a nonstop drumbeat of users inciting each
01:17
other to violence against people that they perceive as antithetical to their causes.
01:23
Everything we saw online kind of came true.
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I will say that a majority of the domestic terrorism cases that we've investigated are
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motivated by some version of what you might call white supremacist violence, but it includes
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other things as well.
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Yesterday's scene at the Capitol was disturbing, to be quite honest.
02:24
Swastikas and Confederate flags, nooses and automatic rifles do not represent who we are
02:30
as Michiganders.
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These groups primarily recruit, organize, and converse with each other using social
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media, and a lot of them have moved on to alternative social media platforms.
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We're talking about things like Parler, Gab, MeWe, Wimkin.
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There's a whole host of different tech platforms with funny-sounding names that promise users
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very limited and very minimal moderation.
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I don't want to see violence, but if it has to be done, it has to be done.
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Now more than ever, it is important for us to fully come to grips with the threat that
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disinformation poses to the stability of our country and our social society.
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And if we don't come to grips with that, my fear is that we will see more events like
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this going forward in the future.
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