This is how Mitt Romney fled from the mob on Capitol Hill 0:56
(CNN) -
Many of the videos used as evidence by impeachment prosecutors this week were originally posted on Parler, a social media platform that was popular with Trump supporters at the time of the insurrection.
Parler went out of service after Amazon Web Services removed hosting support for the site in the days after the insurrection.
An anonymous computer programmer using the online name "Crash override" and the Twitter username @donk_enby realized that the social media platform was full of videos that could be used as potential evidence to identify the insurgents.
The programmer jumped into action and began downloading videos from Parler before the site went completely offline.
“He had an efficient way of downloading everything.
I knew what was there, but it seemed like no one else could see the value, "he told CNN on Wednesday.
In total, he gathered 30 terabytes, that's 30,000 gigabytes, of video, he said.
Seeing that much of the material is used as evidence in this week's impeachment trials, he told CNN: "I hope it inspires more people with similar abilities to use those abilities for good."
She told CNN that she does not live in the United States and describes herself as a "hacktivist," she claims in her Twitter bio that she uses her pronouns.
Although she describes herself as a "hacktivist", she clarified that "everything I archived was publicly accessible."
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ProPublica published hundreds of the videos collected by @donk_enby in a database on its website.
Videos of Parler used by House impeachment prosecutors were downloaded from this ProPublica database.
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