Social:Sedition Hunters

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Short description: Jan 6 Capitol attack online investigation group

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 January 6 United States Capitol attack. 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]

On January 20, 2025, the first day of his second presidency, Donald Trump issued a pardon of January 6 United States Capitol attack defendants, granting blanket clemency to everyone charged in connection with the attack.[13]

References

  1. ↑ Morrison, Sara (January 6, 2022). "To catch an insurrectionist". https://www.vox.com/recode/22867000/january-6-fbi-search-facebook-google-insurrection. 
  2. ↑ "Online community of so-called 'Sedition Hunters' work to identify the January 6 rioters". January 6, 2022. https://www.cbsnews.com/video/online-community-of-so-called-sedition-hunters-work-to-identify-the-january-6-rioters/. 
  3. ↑ Hutton, Alice (June 7, 2021). "Online 'sedition hunters' search for remaining US Capitol rioters, new report claims". https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/sedition-hunters-us-capitol-b1861279.html. 
  4. ↑ Martínez, A; Yousef, Odette (January 5, 2022). "Amateur sleuths help to identify hundreds of suspected Jan. 6 rioters". NPR. https://www.npr.org/2022/01/05/1070471256/amateur-sleuths-help-to-identify-hundreds-of-suspected-jan-6-rioters. 
  5. ↑ Reilly, Ryan J. (2023) (in en). Sedition Hunters: How January 6th Broke the Justice System. PublicAffairs (published October 17, 2023). ISBN 978-1541701809. 
  6. ↑ Campbell, Ian Carlos (January 15, 2021). "A Parler archive is being converted into an interactive map of the Capitol building attack" (in en). https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/14/22231749/parler-interactive-map-video-gps-capitol-attack. 
  7. ↑ Koebler, Jason; Makuch, Ben (January 13, 2021). "Developer Makes Interactive Map of Parler Videos From Capitol Hill Riots" (in en). https://www.vice.com/en/article/developer-makes-interactive-map-of-parler-videos-from-capitol-hill-riots/. 
  8. ↑ Rogalski, Jeremy (February 7, 2021). "Interactive map tracks videos recorded during Capitol riot" (in en-US). https://www.khou.com/article/news/investigations/map-videos-capitol-riot/285-b0cd8bc9-d86e-4522-b321-6afbee84bc27. 
  9. ↑ Mak, Tim (August 18, 2021). "The FBI Keeps Using Clues From Volunteer Sleuths To Find The Jan. 6 Capitol Rioters". NPR. https://www.npr.org/2021/08/18/1028527768/the-fbi-keeps-using-clues-from-volunteer-sleuths-to-find-the-jan-6-capitol-riote. 
  10. ↑ Feuer, Alan (January 5, 2022). "Prosecutors Move Quickly on Jan. 6 Cases, but One Big Question Remains". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/us/politics/jan-6-capitol-riot-investigation.html. 
  11. ↑ Richer, Alanna Durkin; Kunzelman, Michael (July 6, 2021). "Hunt for Capitol attackers still on 6 months after Jan. 6". https://eu.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2021/07/06/hunt-capitol-attackers-still-6-months-after-jan-6/7880503002/. 
  12. ↑ Reilly, Ryan J. (January 5, 2022). "The FBI's Secret Weapon In The Capitol Attack Manhunt" (in en). https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sedition-hunters-capitol-attack-online-sleuths-fbi-trump_n_6161da09e4b06a986bd00df1. 
  13. ↑ Richer, Alanna Durkin; Kunzelman, Michael (January 21, 2025). "Trump grants sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants, including rioters who violently attacked police". Washington, D.C.: Associated Press. https://apnews.com/article/capitol-jan-6-pardons-trump-justice-department-8ce8b2a8f8cb602d5eaf85ac7b969606. 




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