Archivists Are Mining Parler Metadata to Pinpoint Crimes at the Capitol

Archivists Are Mining Parler Metadata to Pinpoint Crimes at the Capitol

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qjpevv/archivists-parler-capitol-hill-crimes

Using a massive 56.7 terabyte archive of the far-right social media site Parler that was captured on Sunday, open-source analysts, hobby archivists, and computer scientists are working together to catalog videos and photos that were taken at the attack on the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday.

Over the last few days, Parler was deplatformed by Amazon Web Services, the Google Play Store, and the Apple App Store, which has taken it offline (at least temporarily). But before it disappeared, a small group of archivists made a copy of the overwhelming majority of posts on the site.