'Terrifying' Parler analysis uncovers an explosion of calls for pro-Trump violence

[DonViejo]

Travis Gettys
January 25, 2021

Former president Donald Trump's right-wing supporters responded to his election loss with an explosion of threats to hang or kill members of Congress, according to a new analysis.

Many of the defeated president's supporters migrated to the social media platform Parler after the election, and an anonymous hacker retrieved a 70-terabyte cache of data from the site before it was taken offline, giving analysts a "terrifying" look into planning for the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, according to researchers Candace Rondeaux and Heather Hurlburt in a column for the New York Times.

"The early takeaways are terrifying," the duo wrote. "According to at least one preliminary analysis, the frequency of hashtags on Parler referencing hanging or killing duly elected members of Congress more than doubled after the November elections."

Rondeaux, a senior fellow with the Center on the Future of War, and Hurlburt, director of New Models of Policy Change at New America, called on President Joe Biden's administration to develop a long-term plan for confronting the escalating threat from right-wing insurgents who recruit and plot anti-government actions online despite getting chased from site to site.

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[groundloop]

1. Dismantling these right wing hate groups is going to be one hell of a difficult task.

One would think that raising living standards of disadvantaged people might be a start, but no matter what you do there will always be hatred and those who are willing to exploit it.

[lagomorph777]

3. Many of the worst terrorists are far from "disadvantaged."

Their ranks include doctors, real estate agents, and even members of Congress (House and Senate).

So our approach has to assume they can come from across all social strata.

[Chakaconcarne]

2. and they all had to use a phone number to register......

[Midnight Writer]

4. Real numbers would help this story. "More than doubled" could mean it went from 3 to 7.