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January 6 committee subpoenas Google, Facebook, Twitter and Reddit in probe of Capitol attack

Posted by dubteedub
Tags: social media, facebook, google, usa, politics, reddit, twitter, alphabet, subpoenas, us congress, legal, 2021 us sedition, jan 6 select committee, author.kevin breuninger, author.lauren feiner
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/13/january-6-committee-subpoenas-google-facebook-twitter-and-reddit-in-probe-of-capitol-attack.html

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Authors
Kevin Breuninger,Lauren Feiner
Published
Jan 13 2022
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    dubteedub
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    From the Guardian: The Reddit administration may finally have to answer for their role in promoting far-right domestic terrorism and white supremacy in front of Congress. This has been a long time...

    From the Guardian:

    The chairman said the select committee was interested in records from Reddit, since the “r/The_Donald” subreddit that eventually migrated to a website of the same name hosted significant discussion and planning related to the capitol attack.

    The Reddit administration may finally have to answer for their role in promoting far-right domestic terrorism and white supremacy in front of Congress. This has been a long time coming.

    The Reddit admins allowed r/The_donald and similar forums to flourish on this site to the detriment of all. With the rise of r/the_donald we saw an increased saturation of hate and violence on this site across several years and the admins allowed it to fester to capitalize on the extra views and audience this group brought.

    While r/The_donald had been shuttered in the months leading up to January 6th insurrection, the admins allowed them several months to promote and build their offshoot dot win website which was arguably the prime organizing and planning ground for the January 6th attack.

    6 votes
    1. nacho
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      I really, really hope they comb through modmail in a number of subs. Modmail alongside reddit's permanently stored IPs of the device an account was made from should strongly help identifying...

      I really, really hope they comb through modmail in a number of subs. Modmail alongside reddit's permanently stored IPs of the device an account was made from should strongly help identifying individual people.

      A lot of the incoming modmail in political subreddits will surely also be super interesting. Modmail can't be deleted or edited, so it's all there as a permanent record.

      A lot of other data at reddit can be erased in ways where it isn't retained and can't be officially restored (although many external sites claim to permanently store all original comments made).

      I'm very curious what private subreddits have done in relation to these events. There are surely treasure troves there in closed communities.

      5 votes
  2. moocow1452
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    If Parler got tossed off the internet for allowing these people to coordinate and riot at the Capitol building, then Facebook should be one hundred times as guilty by volume.

    If Parler got tossed off the internet for allowing these people to coordinate and riot at the Capitol building, then Facebook should be one hundred times as guilty by volume.

    6 votes