Archivists Are Preserving Capitol Hill Riot Livestreams Before They’re Deleted

Archivists Are Preserving Capitol Hill Riot Livestreams Before They’re Deleted

3 years ago
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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/3an5e3/archivists-are-preserving-capitol-hill-riot-livestreams-before-theyre-deleted

In times of need, the archivists always come through. During Wednesday's pro-Trump riot at the US capitol, internet archivists started preserving hundreds of photos and videos spreading on social media of the event, which have become immediately relevant as the FBI and other law enforcement groups are looking to identify people who were there.

As Motherboard pointed out yesterday, many easily-identifiable MAGA personalities streamed their raid on the Capitol. Baked Alaska, for example, took photos and streamed himself in Nancy Pelosi’s office. Many of these streams have been deleted by either the streamer or the social media platforms where they were hosted.