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Archives: January 8, 2021

Laura Hazard OwenJanuary 8, 2021

After the Capitol riots, platforms, archivists, conspiracists, and investigators collide

“While enforcing their rules on the president may help prevent him from egging on his followers further, the rush to delete videos posted by those very followers may end up making them harder to hold accountable. “

Hanaa' TameezJanuary 8, 2021

Boston.com’s new cocktail club is recreating the city’s bar scene from readers’ homes

“There’s such a fun food scene in the city that we all just miss, and this is our ability to replicate that as much as possible until it’s safe to go back out again.”

Danielle K. BrownJanuary 8, 2021

The insurrection at the Capitol challenged the way newsrooms frame unrest

“News audiences aren’t necessarily used to seeing violence and disruption at citizen demonstrations in support of a president — and certainly not on the scale we witnessed on Wednesday at the Capitol.”