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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (OVR) -- Data compiled by an academic research group shows the home counties of 21 people from Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia charged so far in connection with the Jan. 6 riot and in

********** 1:30-3:00 PM | U.S. CT Policy: Charting a Path Forward As the threats posed by far right and populist violence rise in America, terrorism challenges persist and adapt abroad, and a new Biden administration is settling into office in Washington, counterterrorism policy looks set to face a challenge of priorities. How is the United States best placed to confront the wide range of terrorism threats emanating from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia? How can CT policy evolve to ...

Parler Vindicated: Study Finds Facebook ‘Far and Away’ Most Used Social Media By Capitol Hill Rioters Posted on The coordinated Big Tech deplatforming of Parler is looking more and more suspect. Last month, I reviewed every arrest report the DOJ had made available at that time, and the overwhelming number of social media posts cited in these reports were those posted on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. There was barely any mention of Parler. According to this assessment of DOJ arrest report...

Parler House Democrat Carolyn Maloney has sent a letter demanding an unprecedented amount of information from the COO of Parler, Jeffery Wernick. Her pretext for requesting this information is the Capitol riot and allegations that individuals used Parler to coordinate it. The evidence for this is a USA Today analysis that says there was an uptick in calls for violence on the platform after President Trump’s speech on the day the Capitol was breached. According to the Post Millennial, the let...

Facebook said Wednesday it will move to muffle the reach of political content on the social media platform, ...

N.J. among states with most number of suspects in attack on U.S. Capitol Updated Feb 03, 2021; And the Garden State is among the states with the most suspects. Several news and academic organizations are keeping track of those charged. While the lists change daily, use information from differing sources - local police, federal prosecutors and court documents - New Jersey ranks in the top five in most. CBS News reported Jan. 29 that 179 suspects had come from 39 states, and 18 hailed from Texas...

Media Credit: Grace Hromin | Assistant Photo Editor Mary McCord, a POE fellow, said the “radicalization” and violence present during the Capitol riot share similar parallels with foreign terrorist organizations in how participants used social media to share ideas. A panel of media experts unpacked social media’s role in domestic terrorism last week as they reassessed the U.S. Capitol riot. Three faculty members and two staff members from the Program on Extremism covered topics like the r...

FBI offers $75,000 reward for Capitol pipe bomb suspect AFP 1/21/2021 AFP © - This image obtained from the FBI shows a poster offering a reward for information on a suspect who allegedly planted bombs during the January 6 assault on the US Capitol The Federal Bureau of Investigation increased to $75,000 its reward Thursday for help in identifying the person who placed two pipe bombs during the January 6 assault on the US Capitol. The person, seen in a security video wearin...

InfoRiskToday May 5, 2021 Compliance euroinfosec) • January 15, 2021     Capitol riot suspect Aaron Mostofsky (Source: New York Post, as cited in criminal complaint) Many of the insurrectionists who marched on the Capitol on Jan. 6 and violently forced their way into the building livestreamed their activities or boasted about them via social media. So far, those self-identifying actions have helped law enforcement au...

Stefani Reynolds / Getty Images They came prepared for war. Leroy Coffman parked his Red GMC Sierra pickup truck a stones throw from the US Capitol Building at 9:15 on January 6. Inside the truck, legal documents allege, were 11 Molotov cocktails containing a napalm substance, a handgun, shotgun, rifle, crossbow with bolts, several machetes, camouflage smoke devices and a stun gun. Coffman also reportedly had two other guns on his person. Also in his car, the documents claim, were handwritten n...