Question

BREAKING: KAMALA HARRIS SUPPORTERS HAVE STORMED THE CAPITOL, CURRENTLY HOLDING HOUSE AND  SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADERS HOSTAGE

Answer 1

The claim to this information was that Kamala Harris Supporters were storming the capital holding the House and Republic Senate Leaders Hostage which is completely false. The link provided was to a forum similar to X called bsky.com, which provided a picture on people marching in Washington D.C with that headline. The original photo was from Getty images of the "Women's March" which took place during January 21, 2017, the day after Trump was sworn-into office. The exact photo was used in 2 articles one of those was from Buzzfeednews where they talked about the march. and the other was from the DailyMail, which talked about if Trump was elected in 2017 he would use his federal governments to punish critics.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maryanngeorgantopoulos/womens-march-organizers-calling-on-people-to-boycott?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharecopy

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12733391/trump-prosecutions-univision-revenge-mexico.html

Comments

I think it was beneficial. How in-depth you described where the photos come from and the false information from the link provided from the claim, as well as talking about the dates and where the exact photo was used

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I think providing two different sources for where the incorrect images came from and giving background on how the images were being used incorrectly (referencing previous marches in the past 10 years) is a helpful way to fact-check. The sources are also helpful so that anyone can fact-check these images on their own to double-check your work.

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This fact-check is useful since it uses reliable sources to determine the location of the photos used in the original claim. Finding the original photographs used out of context and providing news coverage of what happened in these images effectively disproves the claim; excellent work.

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I believe this fact-check is useful as you found the original source of the images. The images were used out of context for this false claim. Finding multiple sources where the image was used is very helpful.

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I think that this is very useful due to you finding the original source and images. those both provided good context for the claims and the coverage from the news.

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I agree with everything you said and think you fact-checked it very well. I do wonder how serious the statement was and if it was satirical. Although satirical or not without the tag to confirm it being a joke it is a dangerous statement. I think it is great that you provided the quotes and evidence that you did though.

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I agree with your rebuttal of the post; it is indeed false. The in-depth research you did to trace back where the photo was pulled from is an important piece to prove your answer.

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You did an amazing job being able to cite the images from multiple sources to ensure the information being stated was false. It was also important to know the dates of when these photos took place because knowing the timing of the images shows a lot of evidence to the false claim. Great job!

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This claim is false. On January 6th, 2021, there was an attack on the United States Capitol Building, which interrupted the Congress meeting to validate the presidential election. This insurrection is remembered as a dark day in the History of the United States, and this election year on January 6th, 2025, there was not a repetition of this violence. While many supporters of the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, gathered across the country to demonstrate disappointment with the election’s outcome, or to find hope in community, there was no insurrection, nor hostages. https://january6th-benniethompson.house.gov/about

Answer 2

The claim that Kamala Harris supporters raided the Capitol building following the 2024 election is entirely false and is a work of satire. The statement comes from an unnamed X user, declaring that Harris supporters raided the capitol and are holding republican leaders hostage. A reply to the original tweet includes an image of the alleged riots, but a reverse image search shows that the photo is actually from a 2017 women's march.

Comments

Though doing a reverse image search is a valuable way to debunk that specific source, finding new sources that discuss the issue (or clarifying that you can't find another source that mentions it) would have been a valuable addition to your answer that would have made it seem more credible.

Answer 3

The person is claiming that Kamala Harris supporters stormed the United States Capitol. The person tweeted this claim January 6, 2025, which is exactly 4 years ago when Trump supporters stormed the Capitol. On the tweet, there is a reply with a photo of hundreds outside the Capitol, and the person captioned it asking where the troops, and wondering if the troops had been overrun. After researching, the photo was from a women's march in 2017. There are multiple news articles with the photo about the women's march, and if you zoom in on the photos, there are multiple posters about women's rights. There are no news sources that have claimed that Kamala Harris supporters raided the Capitol.

Answer 4

The statement made above was posted to News Detective by a user named “bluesea”. The User provided a link to the claim and was directed to their page on a website similar to X called bsky. The claim is false, and there is no source to back it up.

I presume the User who posted the claim grabbed a headline from an article similar to, “Four years after mob violence, Kamala Harris hands power – peacefully – to Trump,” The Guardian (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/06/kamala-harris-trump-certification-january-6), and reworded it for a popular response. The post on bsky gained 115 likes and five reposts, which seems to be a large number for bsky as it is not incredibly popular.

Answer 5

This claim that Kamala Harris Supporters were storming the capitol is false. It is linked to a site similar to X, and the author is not already established. It is a "prominent leftist chaos agent, member of the nonprofit industrial complex, and occasionally a joke account." The post is new, but the pictures are old. They are from the women's march in 2017, and the photos can be seen on BuzzFeed and Getty Images. I think the text is biased, and no other outlets report this.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/olivianiland/national-archives-womens-march-photo-apology-trump

https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/womens-march

Answer 6

The claim is that Kamala Harris supporters stormed the Capitol, and are holding Republican leaders who are a part of the House and Senate hostage. 

Clicking on the link provided with the claim takes you to a social media website called Blue Sky, which is independent from X, but has the same sort of layout. Considering that "forum" oriented sites like Blue Sky allow users to publish any sort of content that they want, it makes it easy for fake news or misleading content to gain popularity and reach a large number of users. 

So keeping this in mind, there is already hesitancy with this claim. Additionally, upon copying and pasting the claim into a separate tab, the credible sources that do come up, such as NPR and CNN, are commenting on the January 6th, 2021 storming of the Capitol by Trump supporters. There is no headlining information about Kamala supporters. One thing that is also unique is the date in which this claim was published, which is exactly one year since the famous insurrection. This could have been intentional, and a way for the claim maker to "stir the pot" even further. 

There was also a picture provided under the claim, which was of a large group of people supposedly storming the Capitol in Washington D.C. When searching for this image online, it can be found in a Buzz Feed News article about a Women's March that happened in 2017 after Trump's inauguration. The marchers were supporting women's rights and protesting Trump's agenda. So there is actually no connection whatsoever between the image, and the claim that the user makes.

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maryanngeorgantopoulos/womens-march-organizers-calling-on-people-to-boycott?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharecopy

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/29/nx-s1-5159868/2024-election-trump-harris-capitol-riot

Answer 7

The claim that Kamala supporters stormed the capital is completely false. The source where this information was found was not a reliable news outlet, rather it was a forum-style site that allows people to post and express their opinions and ideas without fact checking oversight.

Answer 8

this claim is completely false. Posted, by a user on the public forum Bluesky, which is similar to Twitter/ X, which stated that "KAMALA HARRIS SUPPORTERS HAVE STORMED THE CAPITOL, CURRENTLY HOLDING HOUSE AND SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADERS HOSTAGE". after searching further on the statement, there is no evidence to support the claim. Additionally, I traced back the image that was linked below the statement and It brought me to an article by INDEPENDENT providing context to the photo which was from the Women's March on January 23, 2017, right after Donald Trump was elected. This media claim was most likely some sort of joke or satire because it is blatant misinformation.