Online Networks and Social Change

Social Networks, Trump and Capitol Hill

Abstract:   On the 6th of January 2021, The United States Congress convened a joint session to officially count electoral votes and declare the certified winner of the Presidential election. These proceedings were abruptly interrupted as supporters of then President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol. The brutal assault upon the nation’s pinnacle of democracy was in the unsubstantiated belief of electoral fraud and of a stolen election. The breaching of Capitol Hill suggested it was Read more […]