Rosen, the president asked you to cease voting machines from state governments. Speaker 3: Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States to target you? Speaker 2: I saw friends with blood all over their faces, I was slipping in people's blood. Not only his testimony laid bare the gruesome violence of that day, it's also detailed the threats, intimidation, and pressure applied to local and federal officials from deep inside the Trump administration. Over the course of nine televised public hearings, the House Select Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol has presented damning evidence. Melissa Harris-Perry: Now, more than 21 months later, it's impossible to believe, at least credibly, that the actions of the January 6 mob were spontaneously uncoordinated. He was live streaming to his fans and they were giving him money through the live-streaming app and they weren't sharing memes with him and encouraging him to say those memes out loud and they were also telling him where to go. He's known online as Baked Alaska.Įmily Dreyfuss: He's one of the meme warriors who had been striving to become one of the leaders of what was called the Alt-Right at the time and this was his moment. On that day, Emily tuned in and watched the live stream of Anthime Joseph Gionet. It was a shocking culmination of months of angry denial of the 2020 election results, but where many of us in the general public saw unplanned violence, the M eme Wars co-authors discerned characters in the storyline they've been following for years. Melissa Harris-Perry: From the millions of Americans watching these events unfold, the January 6 mob seemed spontaneous. Speaker 1: We're storming the Capitol, it's a revolution. Now when insurrectionists attack the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Emily, Joan, and Brian watched online by following the live stream accounts of self-styled, meme warriors.Įmily Dreyfuss: We were watching specific influencers' live streams and things like that, and what we were seeing diverged a lot from the mainstream coverage on television, which was just watching the actual crowds and not necessarily the people online egging them on. Along with Joan Donovan and Brian Friedberg, she's co-author of the new book, Meme Wars: The Untold Story of The Online Battles Up Ending Democracy in America. She's a technology journalist and senior managing editor at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on media, politics, and public policy. Melissa Harris-Perry: Welcome to The Takeaway, I'm Melissa Harris-Perry. You're totally missing it, you got to go. Emily Dreyfuss: Dude, they're breaking into the Capitol over there.
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