ONLINE LANGUAGE OF VIOLENT RIOTERS DISPLAYED WEAK GROUP AFFILIATION PRECEDING THE U.S. CAPITOL BREACH

Abstract The riot that occurred on January 6th, 2021, at the Federal Capitol buildings represented a form of political violence rarely witnessed in the history of the United States.Thousands of people attended the riot, and many were criminally charged with violent and nonviolent offenses.Criminal case files provided by the Federal Bureau of Invest

Henry Devlin,1,* Stephanie Fulaz,1,* Dishon Wayne Hiebner,1 James P O’Gara,2 Eoin Casey1 1UCD School of Chemical and Bioprocess Engineering, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland; 2Department of Microbiology, School of Natural Sciences, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland*These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespo