Millions of lines of data are better than thousands of documents. When you look at call detail records or open source intelligence research, those types of things can give you a lot of information. It can direct the way that you investigate more than bringing people in who lie, plead the Fifth, or sometimes forget things.
The real story isn't Trump. He says that Trump's polling numbers will go up if he is indicted. Good luck! Hundreds of people are running for state and local office because of Trumpism. The next Congress will have Donald Trump's stamp on it regardless of which party takes control. The Washington Post reported that more than 300 GOP candidates wouldn't have certified Biden's victory. There are 171 Republicans who are running.
As a former member of the House Freedom Caucus who has libertarian leanings, Riggleman is worried about the digital takeover of a party he used to love. Someone has to figure out who is pushing the radicalizing ideas over digital channels.
Thousands of Trump supporters took his post-January 6 deplatforming as their cue to follow their leader off social media and into a new world of almost-anything-goes social media apps. The most recent coverage sucks up the most recent coverage of other apps.
Gab is a place where QAnon devotees feel safe discussing conspiracy theories, as is GETTR, which is a free speech focused app. Trump is spreading ungrounded conspiracy theories about ballot-stuffing.
Telegram and Signal are popular messaging apps used by many on the right. Many of Trump's most motivated followers, which we know from the dramatic spike in users they both attracted after Silicon Valley firms began their post-insurrection purges, are included.
There are forums like Endchan. The hub connecting kindreds who consider themselves social outcasts set on upending the "normie" society most of us live in has movement-inspiring meme, dangerous conspiracy theories, celebrations of violence and violent rhetoric.
The right has moved on as the select committee prepares its final report on the preparation and planning for the attack on the Capitol. In laying the groundwork to leave a Trump-sized imprint on this year's elections, the former president's supporters are proving to be.
The real story is the online gears, lubricant, chains, and steps under our feet, just like an escalator helped Trump glide into the center of US politics. Unless more attention is given to these means of political production, this new political order is something we all should get used to.
We are in a post-truth era, but we are also in a post- Trump world, and we will have to deal with this for decades. With more technology and more resources, we need to go faster, harder, and better.
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