Members of the Proud Boys have been linked to the Capitol attack, and Canada may designate the group as terrorists. We take a look at who they are, how they started and what they became.
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image captionA lot of campaigning ahead of Thursday s election took place online because of Covid-19 restrictions
After Facebook s suspension of some Ugandan accounts, followed by the authorities shutdown of social media and then the entire internet, the BBC s Dickens Olewe looks at the wider implications for Uganda, and elsewhere in Africa.
Facebook has said it was trying to implement its rules but that is not how President Yoweri Museveni saw it. There is no way anybody can come [here] and play around with our country and decide who is good [and] who is bad, he said as he railed against the company s decision to remove accounts linked to the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) just days before Thursday s general election.
January 13, 2021 5:19 p.m.
Rather than attend upcoming right-wing demonstrations that have been the subject of federal law enforcement alerts in recent days, members of the right-wing street gang the Proud Boys should “walk backward through a field of dicks,” Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio said Wednesday on the group’s Telegram channel.
Referring to the planned events as a “fed honeypot” presumably, he meant an effort to attract and catch armed right-wingers as they commit crimes Tarrio wrote, “We suggest none of you go to these events.”
“We won’t sit on our hands for the next four years but we can pick and choose our battles moving forward,” he said.