The article lists general issues faced by many countries (racism, changes to capitalism {really the Labour Market} and social media) and acts like they're solel

The article lists general issues faced by many countries (racism, changes to capitalism {really the Labour Market} and social media) and acts like they're solely or particularly American. They're not. Also the EU hasn't regulated social media beyond requiring them to put cookie warning up and do some gdpr shuffling. That's why we have all the same extremism and antivax bs floating about. Pretending otherwise makes me question whether the author actually knows (or cares) what the facts are. Also also, calling it a riot is factually inaccurate. It was a failed insurrection. The aims of the perpetrators (assassination of officials, overthrow of an election etc) are well beyond enything rioters have ever hoped for. Or maybe the whole American revolution would be better referred to as the American kuffuffle.