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https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1348620818016841729

> For those asking the basis for that last claim: I spent the weekend reporting on the removal of Parler from the internet, including reviewing lots of documents and interviewing people associated with the companies involved, including Parler.

> The article will be up shortly.

(The article is the one this discussion is attached to.)




This evidence puts into question the quality of such review

https://gizmodo.com/every-deleted-parler-post-many-with-user...


What evidence? The article just says they downloaded all the posts. Am I missing the one where they reference the events at the capitol?

The main exodus to Parler happened after Trump was banned from Twitter, i.e. after the events in question.


https://gizmodo.com/parler-users-breached-deep-inside-u-s-ca...

"The data, obtained by a computer hacker through legal means ahead of Parler’s shutdown on Monday, offers a bird’s 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."


People uploaded GPS tagged video of the event to Parler? Of course they did. The videos were shared everywhere. They were on television and YouTube.

Wasn't the claim that the attack had been planned largely using Facebook and not Parler, rather than something that happened after?


Greenwald literally says in the twit you referenced that zero active Parler users were arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion.

Evidence says: "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."

Evidence proved Greenwald's statement wrong.


> Greenwald literally says in the twit you referenced that zero active Parler users were arrested in connection with the Capitol invasion.

I'm still not seeing the inconsistency, unless you have some evidence that the people who uploaded the videos were the same people who were arrested.




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