Joan Donovan,
director of Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
Posted on 07/21/2022 6:57:34 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Researchers at Harvard University who conducted the largest study yet of what motivated Jan. 6 rioters say the data is clear: The most common responses focused on former President Donald Trump and his lies about the election.
The study, which was shared with NBC News ahead of its publication, logged and analyzed the motives of 417 Capitol rioters, all of whom have been charged in relation to Jan. 6. The motives were derived from 469 documents filed to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, including charging documents and sentencing memoranda.
The researchers from the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University wrote that the documents make clear that Jan. 6 committee member Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., “was mostly correct in her assessment” that “Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob and lit the flame of this attack.”
“Far and away, we find that the two most commonly-cited reasons for breaching the US Capitol were a desire to support Trump on January 6th in DC and concerns about election integrity,” the report reads.
The report adds to evidence from thousands of court documents in the more than 840 cases brought forward so far that many of those who stormed the U.S. Capitol and committed violent acts were motivated by their support for Trump and their belief in lies about the 2020 election.
A plurality of rioters cited either their support for Trump (20.6%) or Trump’s false belief that the election had been stolen (also 20.6%) as their primary motivation for their actions that led to charges on Jan. 6.
“I do believe that the only way to come at this problem of networked incitement is with a whole of society solution.”
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“What we’re trying to understand is really the new potent forms of political violence that can come from agitation online, that creates this kind of fervor. And then, once the match is lit by a politician, we have to have appropriate responses by other actors, including not just law enforcement, but journalists and technologists,” Donovan said.
We have once again been Harv-whored.
The report, written by Joan Donovan, director of Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, and Kaylee Fagan and Frances Lee, research assistants at Shorenstein, is an analysis of “the largest and most far-reaching publicly available archive of social media posts, private messages, and direct quotes attributed to the members of the mob: their court documents.”
They needed a study to figure that out?
The big assumption is the “lies” The evidence shows they were not lies.
It WAS about Trump and the TRUTH.
Will they have the courage to research anomalies, irregularities and clear indicators of election fraud in an unbiased manner?
Once done, will they revisit this study?
/rhetorical questions
Is there anything more than infantile Bolshevism flowing out of Harvard today?
Normal people examine the evidence, then reach a conclusion.
Liberals reach a conclusion, then search for (or make up) evidence.
Harvard is commie lying trash.
Period.
Every single day brings forth more solid and conclusive evidence that it was stolen. We knew that from the wee hours of of the morning after election day and every bit of forensic work after that has supported that conclusion.
The reason behind Jan 6 is because we weren’t tired of all the winning.
This is opinion, not journalism. And institutions cannot figure out why the public has so little trust in them.
Joan Donovan,
director of Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy
B.S. Leftist premise.
not having one’s concerns over the sanctity of an election may contribute to a march on Washington.
Oh geezers, now I can’t unseen that!
Joan is a hippopotamus and looks like she has an IQ of about 50, definitely in the moron category.
GOOD GAWD!!!!!
She has more chins than a Chinese phone book...
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