Parler Users Breached Deep Inside U.S. Capitol Building, GPS Data Shows
Source: Gizmodo
At least several users of the far-right social network Parler appear to be among the horde of rioters that managed to penetrate deep inside the U.S. Capitol building and into areas normally restricted to the public, according to GPS metadata linked to videos posted to the platform the day of the insurrection in Washington.
The data, obtained by a computer hacker through legal means ahead of Parlers shutdown on Monday, offers a birds eye view of its users swarming the Capitol grounds after receiving encouragement from President Trump and during a violent breach that sent lawmakers and Capitol Hill visitors scrambling amid gunshots and calls for their death. GPS coordinates taken from 618 Parler videos analyzed by Gizmodo has already been sought after by FBI as part of a sweeping nationwide search for potential suspects, at least 20 of whom are already in custody.
The siege on January 6, which lasted approximately two hours, resulted in five deaths, including that of a Capitol police officer whom authorities say was bludgeoned with a fire extinguisher and later succumbed to his injuries. Windows were smashed, tables overturned, and graffiti scrawled and scratched into the walls of the 220-year-old buildingsome calling for the murders of journalists sheltering in place nearby.
Gizmodo has mapped nearly 70,000 geo-located Parler posts and on Tuesday isolated hundreds published on January 6 near the Capitol where a mob of pro-Trump supporters had hoped to overturn a democratic election and keep their president in power. The data shows Parler users posting all throughout the day, documenting their march from the National Mall to Capitol Hill where the violent insurrection ensued.
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Bluethroughu
(5,173 posts)They fund it and according to an article Rebecca is one of the proud founders?
I totally agree,
There is a lot of years to go back and look at the money. Please do it.
Bluethroughu
(5,173 posts)Air their ugly.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)catbyte
(34,413 posts)They'll be much easier to trace. And kudos to the hacker who captured all that Parler data before they were taken down.
MontanaMama
(23,333 posts)and a job in cyber security in the federal government should she want that.
catbyte
(34,413 posts)And I must say it's cool that a woman did it. Women don't get enough credit in the tech world.
MontanaMama
(23,333 posts)I tend to think of hackers as men...not sure why...I was thrilled to find out she was a SHE!
DeminPennswoods
(15,286 posts)Experience" last night, then.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)got your Phone Numbers and will have your Address in a few minutes.
Got to hand it to the Hacker,you just saved our Nation.
IllinoisBirdWatcher
(2,315 posts)From this image, it looks as if they were all congregated and moving to the top of the photo (Senate side). It was surrounded from all four sides. The south (House) side has far fewer Parler members. Readers can decide for themselves if there was "coordination."
orangecrush
(19,586 posts)groundloop
(11,520 posts)VideoSteve
(7 posts)And this woman is the next Medal of Freedom winner...once we all the stain off it
Initech
(100,088 posts)catrose
(5,071 posts)Not just travel between cities (precious little of that) but every restaurant I'd been to, every store. I shut off location tracking right then, but I hoped the insurrectionists didn't.