Internet detectives are identifying scores of pro-Trump rioters at the Capitol

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Jaclyn Peiser
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While police & the FBI work to identify & arrest people who stormed the Capitol, online detectives are also crowdsourcing information & doxing them — exposing the rioters to criminal prosecution, but also more immediate action from their bosses. My latest:

Internet detectives are identifying scores of pro-Trump rioters at the Capitol. Some have already...
Online detectives are crowdsourcing information and doxing the people who stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, causing some to lose their jobs.
washingtonpost.com
5:06 AM · Jan 8, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/01/08/capitol-rioters-fired-doxed-online/

As he strolled past gold-framed portraits of past Congressional leaders, one rioter who stormed the Capitol in a pro-Trump mob on Wednesday wore a red Trump hat, a commemorative sweatshirt from the president’s inauguration and a lanyard around his neck.

When a photo of him went viral, it didn’t take Internet sleuths long to realize that the lanyard held his work badge — clearly identifying him as an employee of Navistar Direct Marketing, a printing company in Frederick, Md.

On Thursday, Navistar swiftly fired him.

He’s not alone among the rioters who wreaked havoc in Congress. While police and the FBI work to identify and arrest members of the mob, online detectives are also crowdsourcing information and doxing them — exposing the rioters to criminal prosecution, but also more immediate action from their bosses.

Since most of the rioters stormed the Capitol maskless, online detectives had a unique opportunity to easily identify them. And many made it even easier — they live-streamed their participation and later bragged about their escapades.

Using journalists’ photos and videos, as well as live-streamed videos from rioters, untold Twitter users and Instagram accounts have been feverishly working since Wednesday to ID and name the participants who stormed the halls of the Capitol, ransacking lawmakers’ offices and occupying the House Chamber.

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[snacker]

1. Probably would have been easier

and more cost effective to have arrested all of them while they were at the Capitol. Just saying...

[RockRaven]

2. The cops were too busy helping them into the building and giving them directions on how to find

various offices to ransack to actually arrest them.

[TwilightZone]

4. Not enough manpower.

Which, as has become obvious, was probably intentional.

[OAITW r.2.0]

3. "Name this Seditionist" will be the next great internet past-time.

Lots of rioters will be exposed in the coming weeks....

[lindysalsagal]

5. +1000

[fleur-de-lisa]

6. Someone should have told the traitors that the internet is forever.

[WyattKansas]

7. Who wants to bet that a lot of the rioters are fraudulent grifters themselves always scamming money

From somewhere or someone and have faked legitimate businesses defrauding money from others? I am sure a large chunk of them are still probably sponging off their folks and/or shaking them down for their Social Security checks. You can bet they are always the very first ones with their hands out when their beloved Republican Party is unable to stop the Democratic Party from genuinely helping working people... How else do you think they got the money to buy their assault weapons, ammunition, and plastic pick-up truck nuts to go play Remember the Benghazi, Red Dawn, Deep State Overthrow, Kill the Libs, Fight the Reptiles, etc. etc.?

[keithbvadu2]

8. Smile for the folks back home.

Smile for the folks back home.

They'll want to brag about their candidate for a Trump pardon.