A new Senate report calls out the FBI for lying to Congress about its social media monitoring, pointing out the FBI’s hiring of ZeroFox.

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        Cool anecdotal evidence. Here’s hard data with sources:

        https://acleddata.com/2021/05/25/a-year-of-racial-justice-protests-key-trends-in-demonstrations-supporting-the-blm-movement/

        “Approximately 94% of all pro-BLM demonstrations have been peaceful, with 6% involving reports of violence, clashes with police, vandalism, looting, or other destructive activity.

        In the remaining 6%, it is not clear who instigated the violent or destructive activity. While some cases of violence or looting have been provoked by demonstrators, other events have escalated as a result of aggressive government action, intervention from right-wing groups or individual assailants, and car-ramming attacks.”

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            1 year ago

            Let’s go full circle! According to the FBI (who are known to lie, which was the original intent of the post/article) insurance fraud costs us 40 Billion dollars a year, with other research suggesting much higher.

            https://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/insurance-fraud

            So the most expensive riots, of which 94% were peaceful, cost about 2.5% ( 1B/40B) of how much conservative estimates think insurance companies lose to fraud every year. But again, if you want to specifically make a post/community about this you are more than welcome to.

            Edit: I realize tone is hard to convey over text! I am not trying to diminish the point you are trying to discuss. I just feel like “Lemmyquette” (is that a thing yet?) would suggest it deserving its own article/post. I do think it’s interesting that the 1-2 billion is close to the Rodney King Riots, as sourced in your article. I hope you have a good rest of your evening!

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        Is that a screencap of every single protest across the country? Because I’m looking at it and it looks like it’s just of one specific place and I don’t think anyone is denying that some of the protests were violent. So I’m not sure how that proves they weren’t mostly peaceful.