11 PARLER, THE JANUARY 6 INSURRECTION, AND THE JSON FILE FORMAT
On the morning of January 6, 2021, two months after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to Joe Biden by about 6 million votes, thousands of Trump’s supporters prepared to storm the US Capitol in Washington, DC, hoping to subvert democracy. “We will never give up. We will never concede,” Trump told the crowd from the National Mall, just south of the White House. “We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”
Smartphones in hand, the pro-Trump, anti-democracy activists recorded the entire event. They posted their photos and videos online, many to the far-right social media site Parler. In this chapter, you’ll learn to work with ...
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