Parler Notified FBI of Violent Content Ahead of Capitol Riot
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Parler said it had alerted the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation about violent content on its platform and specific threats against the Capitol more than 50 times in the weeks before the Jan. 6 riot, which left five people dead and hundreds injured.
The conservative social media site, used by supporters of former President Donald Trump and others on the right, began notifying the bureau in December that people were calling for violence on its network. That included someone who wanted to “start eliminating people” on Jan. 6, according to a letter sent to Representative Carolyn Maloney, a New York Democrat, on Thursday.