This is not about false claims, or even conspiracies, but many of the people at the Capitol are now part of a completely alternate reality.

Claire Wardle

People feel helpless, they feel like they want to do something and so they're online scrolling and they're sharing things that they think are true because they're trying to be helpful.

The wider narratives here that are shaping the war, shaping people's ideas of Europe and NATO and Russia, it's less about an individual TikTok video. It's like the drip, drip, drip of what those narratives are doing and the way that they're making people shape their understanding.

I’m so frustrated they are taking knee-jerk decisions in the middle of an insurrection.