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Well, there's this from Glenn Greenwald: > Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler? >

Well, there's this from Glenn Greenwald: > Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler? > Zero. > The planning was largely done on Facebook. [0] https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348619731734028293?s=20 https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348619731734028293?s=... edit: bad formatting

dragonwriter 6y ago
Well, there’s this by me: > Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler? No, and neither does Greenwald, because its not like Parler has a real-name-to-account lookup function he has access to, or authorities have compiled and released breakdowns of all the social media accounts of arrestees, etc. At best, Greenwald is fallaciously treating absence of information about their Parler use as information of absence of such use, at worst he's just making stuff up. > The planning was largely done on Facebook. Planning, including for the violence, was done on Parler among a wide variety of different sites. Actual journalists who are interested in investigating and reporting facts, and who haven’t abandoned actual journalism for pure ideological propaganda like Greenwald, have covered this, including the content of specific posts: https://theconversation.com/far-right-activists-on-social-media-telegraphed-violence-weeks-in-advance-of-the-attack-on-the-us-capitol-152861 https://theconversation.com/far-right-activists-on-social-me... https://www.propublica.org/article/capitol-rioters-planned-for-weeks-in-plain-sight-the-police-werent-ready?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#1040996 https://www.propublica.org/article/capitol-rioters-planned-f... https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/01/07/capitol-attack-was-planned-openly-online-for-weeks-police-still-werent-ready/?sh=727c785e76e2 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/01/07/capitol... https://www.vox.com/recode/22221285/trump-online-capitol-riot-far-right-parler-twitter-facebook https://www.vox.com/recode/22221285/trump-online-capitol-rio...
sangnoir 6y ago
Where did he get his data from to assert that with confidence? Also, how many people had been arrested in total at the time of Glenn's tweet - I have a feeling the number is going to go way up, and with Parler data becoming public, it will be easy to disprove his assertion (which may be technically true, but has low information density)

dragonwriter 6y ago

Well, there’s this by me: > Do you know how many of the people arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion were active users of Parler? No, and neither does Greenwald, because its not like Parler has a real-name-to-account lookup function he has access to, or authorities have compiled and released breakdowns of all the social media accounts of arrestees, etc. At best, Greenwald is fallaciously treating absence of information about their Parler use as information of absence of such use, at worst he's just making stuff up. > The planning was largely done on Facebook. Planning, including for the violence, was done on Parler among a wide variety of different sites. Actual journalists who are interested in investigating and reporting facts, and who haven’t abandoned actual journalism for pure ideological propaganda like Greenwald, have covered this, including the content of specific posts: https://theconversation.com/far-right-activists-on-social-media-telegraphed-violence-weeks-in-advance-of-the-attack-on-the-us-capitol-152861 https://theconversation.com/far-right-activists-on-social-me... https://www.propublica.org/article/capitol-rioters-planned-for-weeks-in-plain-sight-the-police-werent-ready?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter#1040996 https://www.propublica.org/article/capitol-rioters-planned-f... https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/01/07/capitol-attack-was-planned-openly-online-for-weeks-police-still-werent-ready/?sh=727c785e76e2 https://www.forbes.com/sites/jemimamcevoy/2021/01/07/capitol... https://www.vox.com/recode/22221285/trump-online-capitol-riot-far-right-parler-twitter-facebook https://www.vox.com/recode/22221285/trump-online-capitol-rio...

sangnoir 6y ago

Where did he get his data from to assert that with confidence? Also, how many people had been arrested in total at the time of Glenn's tweet - I have a feeling the number is going to go way up, and with Parler data becoming public, it will be easy to disprove his assertion (which may be technically true, but has low information density)