Posted on 09/16/2021 6:31:09 PM PDT by American Number 181269513
January 6 rioters used video sharing app TikTok to recruit participants and even warned them to bring guns to the Stop the Steal rally that preceded it, the Department of Homeland Security says.
DHS's Office of Intelligence and Analysis filed a report this April highlighting concerns that violent content was growing on the Chinese-owned social media platform, from promoting the riot and acts of terrorism to instructing others how to build bombs and sabotage railroad tracks.
The five page report, obtained by the Property of the People transparency watchdog group and shared with Politico Thursday, comes as federal authorities examine the role social media companies like TikTok played in the Capitol riot, which left five people dead and more than 600 people charged with crimes.
DHS's officials issued a specific alert over TikTok because authorities had initially been unaware of the platform and how it was used.
But now officials understand that the platform has become a popular site for extremist activities, Politico reports.
The social media giant has about 100 million active users in the US, with TikTok generally seen as a place for younger users to upload funny or informative videos complete with sound and visual effects.
The agency cited multiple videos promoting the January 6 riot, including of one user who told others to bring firearms to the Capitol.
DHS also made notice of TikTok videos discussing how to tamper with railroad tracks, interfere with the National Guard during riots and how to access White House tunnels.
They also detailed incidents aboard where terrorists used the platform to promote their plans and ideals. In October 2019, ISIS had used TikTok to show off corpses, guns and their acts of violence.
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Remarkable, isn't it? Conservatives are usually armed to the teeth, yet when they tried to violently overthrow the U.S. government, they did not bring any guns, and they did not kill anyone.
Are there any left-wing terrorists?
Bull.
What bothers me is the drumbeat of the term "extremists" being constantly applied to all Trump supporters from many sources. Even George Bush pushed the "extremists" line in his September 11th speech which disgusts me.
“There is little cultural overlap between violent extremists abroad and violent extremists at home,” Bush said in a speech at the Flight 93 National Memorial... they are children of the same foul spirit, and it is our continuing duty to confront them.”
This is Rules for Radicals 101.
"A good tactic is one your people enjoy."
"Keep the pressure on."
"Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. "
They are brainwashing the base because they are frightened of the prospect of Trump 2024.
I hate seeing agencies weaponized against her citizens.
Nobody did a GAW DAMN THING except protest, and a few moved into the Capitol when the police escorted them in.
All this other stuff is the work of agent provocateurs. A few stupid internet posts by agency operatives, and they call it an ‘insurrection’.
Wonder what they will call it when a REAL insurrection occurs???
I checked the original article, and the word “GUNS” is indeed printed in all caps. Laughable scare tactics. And it ignore the fact that not a shot was fired by the protesters, and few if any guns were found amongst them.
Translation: FBI Agents tried to use TikTok to convince people to bring guns to the Jan. 6 event, and failed.
Exactly.
Then where were all the guns? The DOJ/FBI are full of shit.
Were any guns found among people while they were present at the Capitol? I think there were a few that were in peoples cars park some distance away.
And yet none of the people detained from 1/6 had a gun in their procession?
Yeah. That wasn't cool with me. Guess the Democrats made a good point after all, that he's a "dumb@$$". Oh well, he was great on 9/11. That was his moment. But it's 20 years later. Too bad that he's not on our side but he had made his choice.
Interesting...mentions train track sabotage, which just so happens to be what leftist “ecowarriors” get caught doing when they try to block pipelines. In fact, one leftwingnut just got caught sabotaging tracks not long ago.
Thank you GWB for createing the TSA and DHS.
Bullsh__.
Oh their going back to this well again. Okay, I’ll bite: who got shot? Oh yeah, it was an unarmed protester. The only person who got shot. But hey, supposedly someone on Tik-Tok said bring guns so it now they can call it an armed insurrection when it was neither armed nor an insurrection.
Wait until they find out about the nukes.
Uh... Except there were no guns...
If there were, the guy who shot Ashli Babitt would have been filled with holes, I bet.
That is more like it.
What a total piece of lie this article is.
Who wrote it? Dee H Ess?
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