#ZELLO USERNAMES PATCH#
wearing an oath, her patch claiming to be the leader of an Ohio militia. We found a profile that basically matched everything I just said, a woman who took pictures of herself while she was in D.C. We then found her profile on Parler, that's the right wing social media site that was shut down about a week ago. It also suggested she was a member of a national militia called the Oath Keepers, who are a very radical group that claims to draw current and former military personnel and police. Well, first, we started with her username on Zello, which suggested that she was the leader of an Ohio militia. How do you know that the woman speaking in these recordings is Jessica Watkins? And so in this case, I may actually take her at her word.
#ZELLO USERNAMES PROFESSIONAL#
A lot of far-right militias would like to sound much more sophisticated and professional than they really are. It's important to take that kind of language with a grain of salt. They'll go out into the woods, they'll do target practice, they'll run drills. Man, I wish I knew more about the context around that phrase, but what I do know is that it's pretty common for militias to actually train for combat scenarios. Yeah, you actually captured the sound of her talking with other Zello users while she was clashing with Capitol Police inside the main rotunda, discussing “training for this.” What kind of training are they talking about? And she just wanted to tell them what she was seeing on the ground. and a bunch of other people who were at home. And the reason that we caught this recording is because she was communicating on Zello with people who were likely in D.C. She served in Afghanistan and she was one of the people who ended up breaking into the Capitol. What do we know about who that woman is in the recording? You were listening in on a militia group coordinating on January 6th using a public Zello chat room, and heard a woman’s voice throughout. Loewinger spoke with WNYC’s Sean Carlson about the investigation, and what he heard on Zello during the violent riots at the Capitol. It also comes as social media giants have attempted to curtail hate speech on its platforms. The move comes after years of resistance to any kind of content moderation on the app. The article was written by WNYC’s On The Media reporter/producer Micah Loewinger and Hampton Stall, founder of MilitiaWatch, a website devoted to studying militia groups.įollowing that report, the CEO of Zello took the unprecedented step of deleting 2,000 channels used for recruitment and organizing by far-right militia groups, including some based in the tri-state area. Capitol building on January 6th, according to an article published by The Guardian. The app was also found to be used by some insurrectionists the day they stormed the U.S.
The app known as Zello-which allows smartphones to be used as walkie talkies while doubling as a social media chat tool-is used by 150 million people worldwide.
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