Google, Facebook tied to planning for attack on Capitol, not Parler

 Epoch Times:

Google and Facebook executives were placed on the defense this week as they were questioned on the role their platforms played in the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol.

Protesters who stormed the Capitol used Google-owned YouTube and Facebook, among other platforms, before and during the storming.

Pressed on whether Alphabet, Google’s parent company, missed the extent of the danger, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said this week that the company had been worried about “the possibility of real world harm” and “incitement of violence.”

“I don’t want to say we clearly anticipated what happened last week, but the potential for violence was something concerning. There had been intelligence leading up to it,” Pichai said during the Reuters NEXT conference.
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YouTube removed thousands of videos for promoting theories of “widespread fraud” in the weeks after the 2020 election and, following the Capitol breach, suspended President Donald Trump, accusing him of “inciting violence.”

Google removed Parler, a Twitter competitor, from its online store for alleged failure to properly moderate the platform.

Posts were also made on Twitter and Facebook about the protests in Washington. At one point, “Hang Mike Pence, a reference to killing the vice president, was trending on Twitter.

Gab, another rival, half-jokingly called for Facebook and Twitter to be banned from online stores, noting stories about organization of the Capitol breach taking place on Twitter, and organization of the Jan. 6 protests on Facebook. The account of at least one man charged in the breach, remained live on Twitter on Friday.

Parler’s CEO John Matze told The Epoch Times this week that the platform was being held to a different standard than Facebook and Twitter by companies that deplatformed it. He condemned people using Parler for violence and pushed back against claims that his company did not take responsibility for content posted on the site.
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There is some irony in the use of their products after they attacked Parler which was not involved.  Facebook censored the "Stop the Steal" meme on its site but missed the real danger.

It should also be noted that if those who planned the riot did their organizing effort on these platforms beforehand, it is clear evidence that Pelosi and the Democrats blaming Trump for incitement at his gathering is totally wrong.  The Senate should dismiss their impeachment case without hearing further evidence.  Pelosi was dead wrong in her rush to judgment.