April 12, 2021 last updated 14:32 ET The United States Capitol Building was breached by protesters during a Stop The Steal rally in support of President Donald Trump, Washington, D.C., Jan. 1, 2021 (Photo by John Nacion for STAR MAX/IPx via AP images).
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There are hundreds more pro-Trump supporters implicated in the political violence at the Capitol building last week. Authorities have reportedly charged at least 70 people and opened investigative files on 170 others. Many of the leads have come from crowdsourced clues in a deluge of social media posts on Twitter, Facebook and, before it was taken down, Parler, the social media network popular with the far right. Given the dire warnings from the FBI about forthcoming planned armed marches in Washington and in state capitals across the country, we may soon be drowning in details of the virtual lives of thousands of more radicalized Ameri
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Cyberscoop) An influential Senate Democrat who will soon chair the intelligence committee on Thursday accused the White House of “water[ing] down” the U.S. government’s public statement linking a hacking campaign to Russia, and suggested more high-profile corporations had been breached.