Smartphone role on January 6

Significance of Smartphone in the January 6th Capitol Riots

The riots use smartphone to spread the information to gather protestor during the events. They post it to social media like twitter on what's happening. According to The New York Times website, there were 100,000 location pings for thousands of smartphones, revealing around 130 devices inside the Capitol exactly when Trump supporters were storming the buildings. About 40% of the phone track near rally stage on the National Mall during the speeches. On social media sites uses by the far-right, such as Gab and Parler, directions on which street to take to avoid the police which tools to bring to help pry open doors were exchanged in comments.