From New York Times, I'm Michael Babaro. This is Adali.

Today, over the past few days, social media companies have raised to remove the president

and those who organized the attack on the Capitol from their platforms.

My colleague, Shira Frankl, on whether that will diminish the chance of violence

or make it harder to prevent.

It's Wednesday, January 13th.

Shira, last time that we talked to you, you told us about how supporters of President Trump were

preparing and planning online in very noble ways for what became a violent attack on the Capitol

on January 6th. I want to ask you what's happened to those same people in the days since,

and whether we now feel that the risk of future violence is higher or lower than before.

So the same people that took part in those riots on January 6th are now trying to find their

footing in this new world. What happens when a group of people do what really they thought was

impossible and breach the halls of Congress, make it inside, hold court there for hours,

and then leave many of them to post their videos and photographs online. They want to build on

that momentum and they're currently trying to figure out what the best way is to grow their cause,

which is really to see Donald Trump serve another term in office, to see in their minds the

rightful president assume control of the government.

So what does that actually look like in the wake of a physical attack that as you said was in its

own terrifying way successful but has resulted in a tremendous online crackdown.

So in the hours after the siege, you see a lot of these guys going on Twitter and Facebook and

they're posting celebratory images showing how awesome they look as the speaker of the house

to roaming the halls of Congress and they're they're clearly really excited about what they've done.

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