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arrow Pro-Trump supporters on the Capitol Jose Luis Magana/AP/Shutterstock The app known as Zello—which allows smartphones to be used as walkie talkies while doubling as a social media chat tool—is used by 150 million people worldwide. The app was also found to be used by some insurrectionists the day they stormed the U.S. Capitol building on January 6th, according to an article published by The Guardian. The article was written by WNYC’s On The Media reporter/producer Micah Loewinger and Hampton Stall, founder of MilitiaWatch, a website devoted to studying militia groups....

Although Twitter and Facebook have been cracking down on some far-right users, extremists have found other ways to communicate — including the smartphone app Zello, which according to the Guardian, was useful to some far-right militia members during the siege of the U.S. Capitol Building.

January 14, 2021 11:35 a.m. The popular walkie talkie app Zello said Wednesday that it had deleted more than 2,000 channels “associated with militias and other militarized social movements” in light of evidence that users had employed the app during the storming of the U.S. Capitol last week. In a blog post on its website, the company said it had “discovered evidence” of its app being misused by individuals while they stormed the Capitol, but hedged that “we do not have any evidence of how Zello was effectively used beyond anecdotal reports of typical social med...

Details emerge of high-level state involvement in Wednesday’s coup attempt In the aftermath of the January 6 fascist coup attempt in Washington DC, new revelations show that the plot was prepared with the involvement of sections of the military, police and Republican Party. The danger has not passed. Trump remains president for 11 days and is using the White House as the nerve center for his efforts to remain in office. There is every indication that plans for a second putsch attempt on Inauguration Day—January 20—are now underway. The minimal police presence at the Capitol building on ...

The playbook for the 6 January insurrection had been tested across the country for years