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January 6 will be remembered as the day the government staged a riot to conceal the certification of a fraudulent election.

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Was the January 6 riots a false flag operation?

Fact-checked: False.

According to PolitiFact, claims about Jan. 6 being a "false flag" took off in the months after the insurrection following a blog post by Revolver News. The website’s unproven theory focused on charging documents and that the FBI had used informants and undercover operatives to foil an extremist plot to kidnap Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. A cursory look showed the theory was rife with holes, inaccuracies and circumstantial speculation, which was amplified by multiple pundits and politicians. PolitiFact rated the claim that federal agents directly incited people as False. In late November, PolitiFact examined a claim by U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-La., about "ghost buses" carrying undercover FBI agents to the Capitol that day. We rated the unsupported claim False, with experts telling us they were unfamiliar with the term "ghost bus" and that there are reasons the FBI would not bus a group of informants to an event.

There is no evidence that shows the government staged the riots.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2023/dec/07/vivek-ramaswamy/vivek-ramaswamy-said-jan-6-was-an-inside-job-at-al/

https://www.politifact.com/article/2021/jun/18/why-new-false-flag-conspiracy-theory-fbi-orchestra/
False

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