Sedition Hunters Explained

Sedition Hunters is an online community of open-source intelligence investigators working to identify individuals who took part in the January 6, 2021, United States Capitol attack.[1] [2] [3] They examine still photos and video footage from publicly available sources, social media sites like Twitter and Parler, video platforms, and other social media and submit that research to the FBI in the form of a tip.[4] [5]

The Sedition Hunters community has created and deployed a number of advanced tools to help study the Jan6 riot. Among the earliest was an interactive map,[6] [7] showing videos recorded of the event that had embedded GPS location tags. Later, the community created a public facial recognition database[8] to quickly find suspects in terabytes of footage.

The FBI has relied on groups like the Sedition Hunters due to the large number of suspects, estimated at 2,000.[9] [10] [11] [12]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: March 13, 2024 . To catch an insurrectionist . Sara . Morrison . Vox. January 6, 2022 .
  2. Web site: Online community of so-called 'Sedition Hunters' work to identify the January 6 rioters . January 6, 2022 . CBS News . March 13, 2024 .
  3. Web site: Online 'sedition hunters' search for remaining US Capitol rioters, new report claims . Alice . Hutton . March 13, 2024 . The Independent. June 7, 2021 .
  4. Web site: Amateur sleuths help to identify hundreds of suspected Jan. 6 rioters . . NPR . January 5, 2022 . March 13, 2024 . A . Martínez . Odette . Yousef .
  5. Book: Reilly, Ryan J. . Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System . PublicAffairs . 2023 . 978-1541701809 . October 17, 2023 . en.
  6. Web site: Campbell . Ian Carlos . January 15, 2021 . A Parler archive is being converted into an interactive map of the Capitol building attack . February 12, 2024 . The Verge . en.
  7. Web site: Koebler . Jason . Makuch . Ben . January 13, 2021 . Developer Makes Interactive Map of Parler Videos From Capitol Hill Riots . https://web.archive.org/web/20210114195135/https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdmm8/developer-makes-interactive-map-of-parler-videos-from-capitol-hill-riots . January 14, 2021 . live . February 12, 2024 . Vice . en.
  8. Web site: February 7, 2021 . Interactive map tracks videos recorded during Capitol riot . https://web.archive.org/web/20210209060755/https://www.khou.com/article/news/investigations/map-videos-capitol-riot/285-b0cd8bc9-d86e-4522-b321-6afbee84bc27 . live . February 9, 2021 . Jeremy . Rogalski . February 12, 2024 . . en-US.
  9. Web site: The FBI Keeps Using Clues From Volunteer Sleuths To Find The Jan. 6 Capitol Rioters . Tim . Mak . August 18, 2021 . . NPR . March 13, 2024 .
  10. News: Prosecutors Move Quickly on Jan. 6 Cases, but One Big Question Remains . March 13, 2024 . The New York Times. January 5, 2022 . Feuer . Alan .
  11. Web site: Hunt for Capitol attackers still on 6 months after Jan. 6 . July 6, 2021 . The Detroit News . Alanna Durkin . Richer . Michael . Kunzelman . March 13, 2024 .
  12. Web site: Reilly. Ryan J.. January 5, 2022. The FBI's Secret Weapon In The Capitol Attack Manhunt. live. January 5, 2022. HuffPost. en. https://web.archive.org/web/20220105104911/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sedition-hunters-capitol-attack-online-sleuths-fbi-trump_n_6161da09e4b06a986bd00df1 . January 5, 2022 .

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