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Link to Senate Report: Examining the U.S. Capitol Attack, a Review of the Security, Planning,... (Original Post) Nevilledog Jun 2021 OP
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Jun 2021

C. FBI and DHS Did Not Deem Credible Online Posts Calling for Violence at the Capitol

Of the intelligence products DHS and DOJ provided to the Committees, almost all referenced violent extremists’ use of online message boards, social media, memes, or hashtags. The majority of these referenced particular threats of violence posted on social media or posts encouraging others to commit violent acts.183

For example, DHS’s October 2020 Homeland Threat Assessment noted that “violent extremist media almost certainly will spread violent extremist ideologies, especially via social media, that encourage violence and influence action within the United States.”184

Further, I&A’s December 30, 2020 report on the “diverse domestic violence extremism landscape” stated that “the use of social media to make threats of violence upon which [domestic violent extremists] often do not act” is a limitation on DHS’s ability to detect and disrupt domestic violent extremist plots.185

When asked how I&A did not identify any of the social media posts calling for attacking the Capitol prior to January 6, one DHS I&A official cautioned that social media is “nuanced” and that it can be difficult to distinguish between mere rhetoric and overt threats.186 Ms.

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