As reactions to
Donald Trump‘s supporters storming the U.S. Capitol flooded social media on Wednesday (January 6), an unlikely tweet misidentifying one of the protesters went viral.
Ryan Lizza, a senior political analyst at
CNN and correspondent for
Ryan captioned a photo of a
Trump supporter taking a lectern from Capitol Hill, “Via Getty, one the rioters steals a podium from the Capitol.”
Social media users assumed Via Getty was the name of the protester pictured, rather than Ryan attributing the photo to the media agency
Getty Images. As the tweet circulated and followers continued to refer to the man as Via Getty,