The FBI, Social Media and Jan. 6
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 29 July 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
The attempted insurrection on January 6 is back in the headlines. This week, the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot began its work with its very first hearing. So for our Arbiters of Truth series on our online information environment, Evelyn Douek interviewed Quinta Jurecic about social media’s role in warning of the riot. Specifically, they talked about an essay Quinta wrote in Lawfare on the FBI’s failure to examine social media posts announcing plans to storm the Capitol—and how FBI Director Christopher Wray’s explanations don’t hold water.
So why does Quinta think Wray has been misleading in his answers to Congress on why the FBI didn’t review those posts from soon-to-be-rioters? What about the First Amendment issues raised by the U.S. government refreshing your Twitter feed? What role is social media playing in the Jan. 6 prosecutions—and what does that say about how tech companies should preserve online evidence of wrongdoing, rather than just taking it down?
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| 1:08.6 | I think it's fair to say it is a pretty catastrophic failure on the FBI's part. And understanding |
| 1:14.2 | why the bureau didn't look at social media posts is part of understanding that catastrophic |
| 1:23.2 | failure because it's yet another example of how there was really evidence in plain sight |
| 1:28.7 | that something bad might be about to happen and that the bureau might need to start preparing |
| 1:33.7 | for it and it appears to have just kind of whiffed by without anyone paying attention |
| 1:38.2 | or taking it seriously. |
| 1:40.7 | I'm Quintet Jurassic and this is the LawFair podcast July 29, 2021. The attempted insurrection |
| 1:49.8 | on January 6 is back in the headlines. This week, the House Select Committee investigating |
| 1:55.8 | the Capitol riot began its work with its very first hearing. So for our Arbiter's of |
| 2:01.3 | Truth series on our online information environment, Evelyn Duac interviewed, well, me, about social |
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