Parler Warned the FBI About Jan 6th But Still Got Cancelled
I randomly came across this article, and it purports to be from "Erie News Now," but at the end it cites CNN. Which makes this a little odd, because I wouldn't have expected CNN to admit this. However, since I think their focus in this article was the Feds' tracking of potential violence, rather than Parler's role in alerting them, I think they may have overlooked the fact that they gave away something here that they may not have intended to.
Remember, Parler was the platform that got ALL of the blame initially for what happened on Jan 6th (despite later findings that Facebook and Twitter were used even more heavily for planning violence). So much so, that the #BigTech powers that be colluded to remove Parler not only from the app store, but also from the entire Internet. Yet, in this article, we now find that not only was Parler trying to cooperate with the FBI, they even passed data to the FBI alerting it to people that were threatening to commit acts of violence. They alerted them on MULTIPLE OCCASIONS!
This information was acquired from a GAO report, but I just thought that this was an amazing revelation. Parler went out of their way to alert the feds, and yet they were still punished after the feds didn't do a thing to stop what happened. Below is a snippet from the story, as always, the link is at the bottom:
Federal law enforcement tracked the potential for election-related violence as far back as August 2020, which is earlier than previously known, according to a government report released Monday.
The Government Accountability Office said in its report that federal agencies had tracked the potential violence on social media and other websites. Furthermore, the agencies produced dozens of internal reports prior to the January 6, 2021, insurrection warning that protesters may seek to attack the US Capitol, use improvised weapons and potentially be armed.
The GAO report and its accompanying timeline compare, for the first time, how law enforcement obtained and assessed a flood of social media posts detailing plans for violence, and they offer insight into how that information was shared among 10 federal and multiple state and local agencies.
"All 10 selected agencies — including the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Intelligence and Analysis who have lead roles in countering domestic terrorism and violent extremism — were aware of open-source data about planned events on January 6, and seven were aware of potential violence planned for that day," the report said.
Specific calls for violence
The interactive timeline in the Monday report indicates that data was passed to the FBI from social media platform Parler that showed a user had posted, "We need to mass an armed force of American Patriots...to react to the congressional events of January 6th and follow what the Declaration of Independence has dictated us to do."
Parler also alerted officials to another post on December 24, 2020, that said, "I'm trying to find [people who want to commit violence] on the 6th not just a peaceful [march]...is this where I should be looking?"
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LINK:
https://www.erienewsnow.com/story/46407580/feds-tracked-potential-for-election-violence-as-far-back-as-august-2020
