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Many people from multiple states have been identified through posts on social media and are losing their jobs due to their involvement in the riot.

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At least three men have lost their jobs as a result of their involvement in the unrest at the US Capitol Wednesday.

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An Illinois Mayor recently faced calls telling him to resign for condemning the violence at the Capitol. He apologized later in a video saying he had only seen the peaceful part of the protest and thought the rioters had been allowed in. He did not answer the calls to resign in his video.

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A central Illinois mayor who attended the Trump rally in Washington that preceded the storming of the Capitol building has apologized for accusing the media of lying about the violence in a video he posted online afterward

THOMASBORO, Ill. -- A central Illinois mayor who attended the Trump rally in Washington that preceded the storming of the Capitol building has apologized for accusing the media of lying about the violence in a video he posted online afterward.

Thomasboro Mayor Tyler Evans, who has faced calls to resign since he posted the video, issued a statement Thursday apologizing for his comments and condemning the violence at the Capitol. He said he made it as far as the Capitol steps and saw very little evidence of violence, and that some people told him they'd been allowed into the building.

"Before I had a full understanding of the actions of rioters who stormed the Capitol, I shared a video reflecting my experience with tens of thousands of peaceful protestors that day. As a result, my remarks were not fully informed on what happened inside the Capitol by extremists," said the mayor of the Champaign County village. "I take full responsibility for any hurt my words caused, and for that, I am sorry."

Evans, a Trump supporter, said he went to Washington to peacefully attend the rally and the protest march to the Capitol.

At the rally, Trump, repeated baseless claims that widespread voter fraud had cost him the election. At one point, he told attendees, "If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore."

In his apology, Evans didn't address the calls for his resignation.

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A central Illinois mayor who attended the Trump rally in Washington that preceded the storming of the Capitol building has apologized for accusing the media of lying about the violence in a video he posted online afterward THOMASBORO, Ill.

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After challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, elections, riots, environmental crises and more from 2020, many Americans looked to the upcoming year of 2021 with hope. However, only six days into the new year, many Americans were struck with fear after a pro-President Donald Trump mob stormed the U.S. capital in protest of the 2020 election results. Psychiatrists and physiologists now warn these events are taking a toll on many peoples mental health.The American Psychology Association's 2020 Stress in America survey revealed that nearly 78% of American adults found the COVID-19 pandemic to be a major source of stress in their lives.

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After a notorious 2020, troubled by the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, elections, riots and environmental crises, many Americans looked toward 2021 with hope. However, on Jan. 6, a pro-President Donald Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in protest of the 2020 election results. Violence ensued and at least four lives were lost.

Americans once again found themselves glued to their televisions, computers or radio shows, fearing that our nation was in crisis. Psychiatrists and psychologists now warn the event is taking a toll on mental health.

"Americans are hurting in the pandemic and this makes the pain, fear and stress that many of us are feeling much worse," Dr. Jeffrey Geller, American Psychiatric Association's president, said in a statement Thursday.

Wednesday simultaneously marked the deadliest day since the COVID-19 pandemic began as hospitals around the country exceeded their intensive care unit capacities and reached their breaking point.

Faced with images of crowded hospitals, ventilators and funerals, the American psyche has been assaulted by daily threats. While COVID-19 was once a threat "out there," it has now become a ubiquitous threat "in here" -- affecting our friends, neighbors, and those closest to us. Similarly, growing political tensions in the United States, which were once "out there" on the fringe of the internet have suddenly found themselves "in here," busting down the doors of the nation's Capitol.

Instead of beginning the year with the hope brought by the COVID-19 vaccines, ongoing political and health threats have compounded to repeat a cycle of chronic stress many Americans have been suffering for 10 months.

Pandemic anxiety is wreaking havoc on Americans. The American Psychological Association's 2020 Stress in America survey revealed that nearly 78% of American adults found the COVID-19 pandemic to be a major source of stress in their lives.

Once believed to be simple worries confined to the mind, stress and psychological trauma are real, physical phenomena manifested in the physical brain. By now, decades of scientific research show that psychological trauma can create tangible and long-lasting harm.

Threats to our security: fears of contracted COVID-19 or that the nation is on the verge of war -- activate the sympathetic nervous system in the human body. This is the fight-or-flight body system that interacts with our endocrine and muscular systems to prepare ourselves for action.

A system refined over millions of years to give us lightning speed or heroic strength when attacked by mountain lions is now the same system that activates when we watch current events. Only now, as our bodies prepare for action, we are ironically trapped within the confines of our homes.

While our bodies are designed to have periods of action followed by periods of relaxation, the constant threats over the past 10 months lead to chronic stress; that is, an inability to escape the fight-or-flight response.

The result? Our adrenaline keeps pumping, our muscles tense, our digestion becomes irregular, insomnia climbs and our heads ache.

Chronic stress is linked to many medical illnesses, including heart disease and diabetes. It can increase blood pressure and hinder brain performance.

One of the hormones implicated in anxiety is the stress hormone, cortisol.

"Cortisol is really important in regulating the normal functioning of our body, in particular, it's important in regulating how our immune system works, so you can see how levels of this hormone might be really important in determining our future physical health," Kavita Vedhara, professor of health psychology, said in a press release.

Vedhara's study has shown that high cortisol levels are associated with worse COVID-19 outcomes.

For some, events like Wednesday's takeover can have a psychological impact similar to other moments of social unrest, fights or even warfare. Post-traumatic stress disorder is an illness where a frightening event leaves such a psychological impact that one can experience flashbacks, nightmares, or even avoid certain places or people because of the deep-seated memory of the event.

There will be Americans with frightening memories of Wednesday's events or memories of losing loved ones in the hospital. Just as millions of Americans need healing from this virus, millions may need psychological healing from the events of the past year.

But there are things we can do to cope, even during these stressful times. The American Psychological Association recommends taking a break from the news, calling a friend, exercising, or trying to do something that will lift your spirits. Most importantly, take care of yourself.

If you or someone you know is in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741. You can reach Trans Lifeline at 877-565-8860 (U.S.) or 877-330-6366 (Canada) and The Trevor Project at 866-488-7386.
Nicholas Nissen, M.D., is a clinical fellow and resident physician at Harvard Medical School and a member of the ABC News Medical Unit.

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After a notorious 2020, troubled by the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, elections, riots and environmental crises, many Americans looked toward 2021 with hope. However, on Jan. 6, a pro-President Donald Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in protest of the 2020 election results. Violence ensued and at least four lives were lost.

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The officer is the fifth person to die as a result of the breach Wednesday.

A U.S. Capitol Police officer has died following injuries suffered in the violent siege on the building Wednesday, according to a press release from the department.

The death is the fifth connected to the riots, which saw swarms of pro-Donald Trump protesters overwhelm police barricades, surge into the Capitol and force lawmakers to go into hiding.

The officer, identified as Brian D. Sicknick, died at 9:30 p.m. Thursday evening, police said.

"Officer Sicknick was responding to the riots on Wednesday, January 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol and was injured while physically engaging with protesters," USCP said in a statement. "He returned to his division office and collapsed. He was taken to a local hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. The death of Officer Sicknick will be investigated by the Metropolitan Police Department's Homicide Branch, the USCP, and our federal partners."

Sicknick had been with the department, most recently as part of the first responder unit, since 2008.

Three people died of medical emergencies, while a 35-year-old woman, Ashli Babbitt, was shot and killed by Capitol police while trying to enter a broken window into the House Chamber.

Law enforcement said more than 50 Capitol police and Metropolitan police officers suffered injuries in the rioting, and "several USCP officers have been hospitalized with serious injuries."

"These individuals actively attacked United States Capitol Police Officers and other uniformed law enforcement officers with metal pipes, discharged chemical irritants, and took up other weapons against our officers," the USCP said in a statement. "They were determined to enter into the Capitol Building by causing great damage."

Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund resigned on Thursday afternoon in the wake of the riots. Several prominent people had called for him to step down, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the head of the police union.

Capitol Police Union Chairman Gus Papathanasiou said in a statement Thursday that officers were "frustrated and demoralized by the lack of leadership."

"We have several protesters dead, multiple officers injured and the symbol of our Democracy, the U.S. Capitol, desecrated. This never should have happened," Papathanasiou said in a statement.

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The officer is the fifth person to die as a result of the breach Wednesday. A U.S. Capitol Police officer has died following injuries suffered in the violent siege on the building Wednesday, according to a press release from the department.

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The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for anyway that can help them find out who left the bombs in Washington D.C. The FBI has a picture of the person but they are in a gray hoody and you can't see there face.

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The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for help in identifying people involved in leaving pipe bombs in Washington, DC, on Wednesday.

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Boeing, a multi-billion dollar aeronautics company, had their Boeing 737 jet liner reapproved for use after two years of being out of service. This was following a total of two crashes destoryed the faith built up into the Boeing company. The company was caught up in many bribery scandals throughout the late 20th century, and had failures in their aircraft in the early 21st century.

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The U.S. Justice Department charged The Boeing Company with "conspiracy to defraud the United States" -- concluding after a lengthy investigation that the company knowingly misled regulators while seeking approval for its 737 MAX aircraft.

In October 2019 pilots struggled to regain control of the MAX and it plunged into the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia. Five months later another MAX crashed near Addis Ababa airport in Ethiopia just six minutes after takeoff, killing all on board, and forcing regulators around the globe to ground the plane. Three hundred and forty-six people perished in both accidents.

Boeing is now entering into a "deferred prosecution agreement" worth 2.5 billion dollars consisting of a $243 million criminal penalty, $500 million to relatives who lost loved ones and $1.77 billion to global airlines affected by the MAX groundings.

In an SEC filing released Thursday, Boeing said it agreed to the charge "based on the conduct of two former 737 MAX program technical pilots."

"I firmly believe that entering into this resolution is the right thing for us to do-a step that appropriately acknowledges how we fell short of our values and expectations," David Calhoun, Boeing president and CEO, said in a note to employees. "This resolution is a serious reminder to all of us of how critical our obligation of transparency to regulators is, and the consequences that our company can face if any one of us falls short of those expectations."

Investigators found that both crashes were tied to Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System, or MCAS, software, which had been designed to help stabilize the jet after heavier, repositioned engines placed on the aircraft caused the plane's nose to point too far upward in certain circumstances.

In both crashes, incorrect data from a faulty sensor caused the MCAS to misfire, forcing the planes to nose down repeatedly. MCAS was not mentioned in the pilot manual -- allowing pilots to enter the MAX cockpit without simulator training that would have cost the airlines more money.

Boeing has been accused of withholding information from the Federal Aviation Administration regarding MCAS. In internal messages that surfaced in October 2019, the chief technical pilot for the aircraft, Mark Forkner, told another pilot that the MCAS flight control system was "running rampant" in a simulator session.

The documents released by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee show Forkner told FAA officials that MCAS was safe despite calling it "egregious" based on simulator tests, according to internal messages and emails.

"I basically lied to the regulators (unknowingly)," Forkner said to his colleague in the messages.

Forkner was the main point of contact between the administration and Boeing in regard to areas like pilot training and manual recommendations, an FAA official explained at the time.

Forkner was reportedly questioned by federal prosecutors.

Boeing said in a statement in October 2019 that Forkner's comments "reflected a reaction to a simulator program that was not functioning properly, and that was still undergoing testing."

In January 2020, Boeing released more than 100 pages of internal communications that the company itself called "completely unacceptable."

In one exchange, an unnamed Boeing employee says the 737 Max "is designed by clowns, who in turn are supervised by monkeys," after complaining about the flight management computer.

In another 2018 message a Boeing employee asks, "Would you put your family on a MAX simulator trained aircraft?"

"I wouldn't," he said.

"No," the colleague responded.

Boeing has since rewritten the MCAS software, receiving the FAA's approval for the jet to reenter commercial service on Nov. 18, 2020.

Last week, American flew the first Boeing 737 MAX with paying passengers in almost two years. United Airlines said it will start flying the MAX out of its Denver and Houston hubs on Feb 11. Southwest Airlines estimated that the MAX will return to service no sooner than March.

American, Southwest and United have all said they will be completely transparent with customers who are scheduled to fly on a MAX and will allow them to rebook with no change fee or request a refund if they do not feel comfortable.

But for the family members who lost loved ones the changes Boeing made are not enough to convince them the plane is safe.

"I wish that the Boeing executives would have been there to have experienced watching coffins being lined up and wondering who your loved one is," Zipporah Kuria, who lost her father Joseph Waithaka in the Ethiopia crash, told ABC News. "Having those coffins opened up and being traumatized by what we saw, what was left of our loved ones, and then maybe they would be forward thinking maybe if they walked a mile in our shoes as the people who have had to pay for their negligence. They would think twice before going ahead and putting this aircraft back up."

When asked for comment, the FAA deferred to the Justice Department.
ABC News' Sam Sweeney contributed to this report

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The U.S. Justice Department charged The Boeing Company with "conspiracy to defraud the United States" -- concluding after a lengthy investigation that the company knowingly misled regulators while seeking approval for its 737 MAX aircraft. In October 2019 pilots struggled to regain control of the MAX and it plunged into the Java Sea off the coast of Indonesia.

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The US topped 4,000 deaths in a single day for the first time. Evidence that the crisis is growing worse after family gatherings and travel over the holidays. Cases are soaring in Arizona, Texas, California, and Florida on Thursday those states combined had nearly 80,000 cases. Thursday ranks as one of the most deadliest days in US history, far outstripping the nearly 3,000 killed in 9/11. Exceeding the combined total of the 3,900 lives lost on D-day and at pearl harbor. Hospitals are struggling to keep up will all these cases.

And now schools are planning to go back to in person? Because a 9/11 everyday is just normal now?

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The United States topped 4,000 daily deaths from the coronavirus for the first time

The tally from Johns Hopkins University showed the nation had 4,085 deaths Thursday, along with nearly 275,000 new cases of the virus - evidence that the crisis is growing worse after family gatherings and travel over the holidays and the onset of winter, which is forcing people indoors.

Overall, the scourge has left more than 365,000 dead in the U.S. and caused nearly 22 million confirmed infections.

Cases and deaths are soaring in California, Arizona, Texas and Florida. Those four states had a combined nearly 1,500 deaths and 80,000 cases on Thursday.

Thursday ranks as one of the deadliest days in U.S. history, with the COVID-19 toll far outstripping the nearly 3,000 killed on 9/11 and exceeding the combined total of nearly 3,900 U.S. lives lost on D-Day and at Pearl Harbor.

Many hospitals in Los Angeles and other hard-hit areas are struggling to keep up and warned they may need to ration lifesaving care. Many nurses are caring for more sick people than typically allowed under the law after the state began issuing waivers to the strict nurse-to-patient ratios.

In Los Angeles County's Henry Mayo New Hall in Valencia, nurse Nerissa Black said the hospital is overwhelmed with patients, likening the situation to New York's at the beginning of the pandemic.

She was assigned six patients but could spend only about 10 minutes with each of them per hour, including the time it takes for her to change her protective gear.

"It's very hard to decide which one should I go see first: the patient who has chest pain or the patient whose oxygen level is dropping," she said.

At St. Joseph Hospital south of Los Angeles, nurses in the COVID-19 ward described being overwhelmed as the deaths mount.

"Just today we had two deaths on this unit. And that's pretty much the norm," said Caroline Brandenburger. "I usually see one to two every shift. Super sad." She added: "They fight every day, and they struggle to breathe every day even with tons of oxygen. And then you just see them die. They just die."

The outbreak has taken another turn for the worse in Arizona, with the state now leading the nation with the highest COVID-19 diagnosis rate over the past week.

More than 132,000 people nationwide are hospitalized with the virus.

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The United States topped 4,000 daily deaths from the coronavirus for the first time The tally from Johns Hopkins University showed the nation had 4,085 deaths Thursday, along with nearly 275,000 new cases of the virus - evidence that the crisis is growing worse after family gatherings and travel over the holidays and the onset of winter, which is forcing people indoors.

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The final toll of natural disasters and their price for 2020 has been counted and the result is over double the average. There were 22 natural disasters each costing about 1 billion dollars a piece. The total cost was around $95 billion which is the 4th highest total annual cost since 1980.

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2020 smashed the record for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters, NOAA says

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An astonishing 22 separate weather and climate disasters, costing over a billion dollars each, occurred in the US in 2020, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released Friday.

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The U.S. unemployment rate remains at 6.7% and some 140,000 jobs were lost last month. Prior to the pandemic, the U.S. unemployment rate was at 3.5%. The state of the pandemic is dictating the state of the economy and is negatively effecting many citizens. This presents the need for further stimulus when economic activities fully resumes.

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"What's really driving the economy is still the path of the virus."

The U.S. unemployment rate was 6.7% in December -- unchanged from the previous month -- and employers cut some 140,000 jobs, the Department of Labor said Friday.

"What's really driving the economy is still the path of the virus," Erica Groshen, a senior economics adviser at Cornell University and the former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, told ABC News ahead of the report's release. Groshen noted that December's data likely reflects the surge in cases after Thanksgiving and the restrictions put in place to quell its spread.

Prior to the pandemic, the unemployment rate in the U.S. was 3.5%.

Notable job losses last month occurred in leisure and hospitality (which shed some 498,000 jobs, the majority of which in food and drinking places), according to the DOL. Since February, employment in leisure and hospitality is down by some 3.9 million jobs. Heavy job cuts also occurred in the private education industry last month (which cut 63,000 jobs) the DOL said.

These job losses were partially offset by some hiring last month in professional and business services (an uptick of 161,000 jobs), retail trade (an addition of 121,000) and construction (which added 51,000).

"There have been huge losses in leisure and hospitality and travel-related industries," Groshen noted. "And many of these are low-wage workers [who] cannot do the work from home."

Moreover, "these are places where business models may be changing and so many of these jobs may not come back," Groshen said.

Groshen said that one of her concerns for the recovery is the growing number of temporary furloughs that have turned into permanent job losses.

The latest economic data continues to show the disproportionate impact of the economic crisis on people of color. The unemployment rate for white workers was 6% last month compared to 9.9% for Black workers, 9.3% for Hispanic workers and 5.9% for Asian workers.

This highlights the need for further stimulus even when economic activity fully resumes, Groshen said.

"We don't want to go back to full activity until it's safe to do that, but we will want to go back to full activity as soon as we can," she said. "And that's when we will need the stimulus, because if we don't have the stimulus, then we are risking going into a traditional normal or recessionary cycle where lack of confidence in the future means people don't spend, companies don't invest, and that reduces confidence in the future."

She continued, "And you get this kind of downward spiral of economic activity. So, this is where government spending can be quite effective."

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"What's really driving the economy is still the path of the virus." The U.S. unemployment rate was 6.7% in December -- unchanged from the previous month -- and employers cut some 140,000 jobs, the Department of Labor said Friday.

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A 22,000 square foot sinkhole just opened up near a hospital in Naples. It was initially thought to be an explosion, but was dismissed shortly after. The 66 foot deep hole swallowed several vehicles when it appeared around 6:30 am. This caused the hospital to evacuate several patients, including Covid patients from the building. Fire dogs were used at the site to ensure there was no one trapped inside. As of right now, no one was injured in the accident.

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A huge sinkhole, about 22,000 square feet across and 66 feet deep, swallowed several cars and forced the evacuation of a Covid ward after opening up in the parking lot of a hospital in southern Italy on Friday.

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When the capital was stormed Facebook decide to temporarily block Trump's account. They also removed one of his video posts. Then yesterday Facebook and Instagram decided to make his blocking indefinitely. They say that they will wait two weeks until Biden takes office completely.

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The major move comes after violence erupted at the Capitol on Wednesday.

After a mob of pro-Trump supporters violently stormed the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., during a joint session of Congress, Facebook took the unprecedented step of indefinitely blocking the president's account.

As pressure mounts and social media companies are being forced to respond to their alleged culpability in the events that unfolded, some experts say now can be a moment of reckoning and change for these tech giants that have been left largely unregulated in the arena of political speech.

At least four people have died following the so-called insurrection that erupted at the Capitol on Wednesday. As the world watched the violence unfold in horror, President Donald Trump shared a video on his social media accounts telling the protesters "we love you" and "you're very special" as he told them to go home.

The video was soon removed by Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. As pressure mounted, Facebook and Twitter took the extra step of temporarily suspending Trump's accounts. On Thursday, Facebook went a step further and said it was indefinitely suspending Trump's accounts on its platforms, including Instagram.

"Over the last several years, we have allowed President Trump to use our platform consistent with our own rules, at times removing content or labeling his posts when they violate our policies. We did this because we believe that the public has a right to the broadest possible access to political speech, even controversial speech. But the current context is now fundamentally different, involving use of our platform to incite violent insurrection against a democratically elected government," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a post.

"We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great," he added. "Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete."

Twitter also removed the video from its platform and said it requested the removal of three of Trump's tweets and also slapped a 12-hour lock on Trump's account Wednesday night. "If the Tweets are not removed, the account will remain locked," the company added in a Tweet on its verified safety account.

YouTube also said in a statement that it removed Trump's video for policy violations and will not allow copies of the video to be uploaded without additional context.

Social media moment of reckoning, calls for regulation

While some expressed shock at the events that unfolded at what was originally called a peaceful Trump rally, social media experts say the hostility that broke into violence has been breeding online for years.

"If you didn't see this coming, you didn't have your eyes open," Jennifer Grygiel, an assistant professor of communications (social media), at Syracuse University, told ABC News. "This isn't something that just happened overnight, this has been a repeated failure from platforms to effectively address government propaganda on the platform."

Social media abuse and hatred has been linked to real-world violence elsewhere in the world, Grygiel noted, citing the attacks against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. Grygiel said it was naive to think the U.S. and its democratic system could be immune to social media exploitation.

"Unfortunately, what we've seen over the last four years since Trump has taken office is a systematic neglect from platforms to take effective action in their policies to prevent social media abuse from the president of the United States," Grygiel added.

Grygiel also noted that Trump has a history of causing chaos with his Twitter use, and said his accounts should have been moderated before versus after he posts.

"What I've been calling for is pre-moderating the president's posts to make sure that they do not violate the policies of these platforms before they're posted," Grygiel said. "You cannot simply recall a president's tweet as soon as it hits .... We have seen tweets that can crash stock markets, this is an instantaneous communications platform."

Grygiel said that the actions the social media companies have taken in response to Wednesday's events is "better than nothing" but big issues and questions remain.

The president uses social media "to circumvent the Free Press," Grygiel said, adding that he could have held a White House Press Briefing rather than just spew harmful rhetoric directly to his audience.

"What we need is federal propaganda regulation to ensure their president is not able to propagandize the people in this way, and to control the media in such a way that it makes it difficult for the free press to hold the government accountable," Grygiel said.

Karen Kornbluh, the former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development and the current the director of the digital innovation and democracy initiative at the German Marshall Fund think tank, told ABC News that she is hopeful this can be a moment for change for companies that have been left largely unregulated.

"I think we all have to realize that this isn't a game, sometimes what happens online people think of as a game and they don't take it seriously," Kornbluh said. "And they think that it's a completely separate world, this terra incognita, where none of our own rules apply."

"We need to apply a lot of the old truths and old rules that we learned in the offline world, whether its consumer protection, or civil rights protections, or campaign finance rules, or how law enforcement has to take threats seriously," Kornbluh said. "We realized that yesterday, the online game spilled out into IRL, in real life."

Echoing Grygiel, Kornbluh said that the old practice of social media giants playing "whack-a-mole" with content after it's already been posted has proven ineffective.

"They should employ things like a circuit breaker. If there's somebody who's a repeat offender, maybe don't take them live," Kornbluh said. "Maybe have a few seconds delay like you had on television, and see so that you can check does this violate our rules? Or doesn't it? And then be consistent about that."

Kornbluh said she understands that the Trump account is the "hardest question" for companies tied up in the debates on free speech from the president.

"But they have made clear within their terms of service where the line was, and they unfortunately kept moving it for him and sent a terrible message: that anything was going to be allowed," Kornbluh added. "I hope one of the things they've learned is that they have to be really clear about what they're going to allow their platforms to be used for, and incitement to violence and potential incitement to violence, if that's their line -- and I hope it is -- that they really have to enforce it."

Finally, Kornbluh said she hopes that "this is a time when we make a real shift in our mindset. And we realize this isn't a game."
This report was featured in the Friday, Jan. 8, 2020, episode of "Start Here," ABC News' daily news podcast. "Start Here" offers a straightforward look at the day's top stories in 20 minutes. Listen for free every weekday on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, the ABC News app or wherever you get your podcasts.

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People who were apart of the riots at the capital building, have now been identified and are losing their jobs. One man who is part of a direct marketing company in Maryland, was seen wearing his company ID inside the building and has been terminated. A Pennsylvania teacher has been relieved of duty for the time being and a Texas lawyer has now lost his job, after being seen on social media, talking about his participation in the riots.

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At least three men have lost their jobs as a result of their involvement in the unrest at the US Capitol Wednesday.

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after the riot at the capitol led by pro-trump supporters and trump said he loved them and called them special people, people are starting to question his mental stability which is why the 25th amendment is being encourage to be put into use the 25th amendment is were we would take president trump out of office and pence would take over because trump is not mentality fit. the backing for him not being mentality fit is that he is encouraging a tersest attack and still says he won the election.

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On the day Congress was set to confirm that President-elect Joe Biden won the election, a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol building. Here's how it happened. (The Washington Post)

Hours after a pro-Trump mob incited by the president stormed the Capitol, dozens of Democrats demanded that he be removed under the 25th Amendment - an unprecedented option being seriously discussed late Wednesday by senior administration officials alarmed at Trump's conduct.

The amendment, which can remove a president "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office," has been used only briefly for medical events, as when President Ronald Reagan underwent colon surgery.

But some politicians and experts argue that Trump has met those standards by encouraging violence through his incendiary rhetoric and by refusing to accept the reality of his defeat.

Aides weigh resignations and removal options as Trump rages against perceived betrayals

"President Trump revealed that he is not mentally sound and is unable to process and accept the results of the 2020 election," Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee wrote to Vice President Pence on Wednesday. "President Trump's willingness to invite violence and social unrest to overturn the election results by force clearly meet this standard."

Although the amendment has never been used in these circumstances, some experts say it could provide a faster and more realistic path than impeachment to quickly remove Trump from power. That would all depend, though, on the backing of Pence and the Cabinet.

So how would it work?

How removal under the 25th Amendment works: A beginner's guide

The amendment, which was ratified in 1967 after concerns about the order of succession after John F. Kennedy's assassination, would allow Pence and a majority of the Cabinet to declare that Trump is unfit for duty. They would then send a letter to Congress about their decision.

At that moment, said Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California at Berkeley's School of Law, Pence would assume the powers of the presidency. If Trump were in a coma or otherwise incapacitated, Pence would keep that power indefinitely.

But the amendment also gives Trump the power to object by writing his own letter to Congress - an action that would immediately restore his powers. If that happened, though, Pence and the full Cabinet would have four days to overrule him. ( There's no agreement on who would be in power for those four days, The Washington Post's Philip Bump reported. The amendment is unclear and would probably have to be tested in court.)

If Pence and the Cabinet did overrule Trump, Congress would be called on to decide the dispute. Pence would remain in power in the meantime.

Following the Jan. 6 pro-Trump mob that breached the Capitol, politicians began calling for invoking the 25th Amendment or the impeachment of President Trump. (The Washington Post)

That's where the timing gets interesting. The amendment orders Congress to convene within 48 hours to decide on whether to boot the president - but then it gives lawmakers 21 days to make a decision.

Affirming Pence's move would require a two-thirds majority of both the House and Senate. That's an unlikely result, considering a majority of House Republicans voted early Thursday to back Trump's electoral objections.

But if the House and Senate leadership simply stalled the vote, they could effectively run out the clock on Trump's term, leaving Pence in charge until President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration on Jan. 20, Chemerinsky said.

"Pence would be the president for that time," he said.

Impeachment, by contrast, would be extraordinarily difficult to push through the House and a Senate trial by Jan. 20, Chemerinsky said. (Unlike impeachment, the 25th Amendment can't actually remove Trump from office - instead, it would delegate his powers to Pence.)

That's not to say that Pence or the Cabinet would ever embrace removing Trump under the 25th Amendment. While senior aides did discuss the option on Wednesday, those talks were informal and no concrete plans were in the works, The Washington Post reported.

If the aim is to avoid further violence and turmoil, Pence and the Cabinet would have to weigh whether removing Trump early would actually accomplish that, Chemerinsky said.

"Do they perceive Trump as so dangerous in the next 13 days that he needs to be gone immediately?" Chemerinsky said. "Or do they think this would just divide the country even further and make him into a martyr?"

Updated January 15, 2021

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