  On 6 January 2021, a mob of right-wing conservatives stormed the USA Capitol
Hill interrupting the session of congress certifying 2020 Presidential election
results. Immediately after the start of the event, posts related to the riots
started to trend on social media. A social media platform which stood out was a
free speech endorsing social media platform Parler; it is being claimed as the
platform on which the riots were planned and talked about. Our report presents
a contrast between the trending content on Parler and Twitter around the time
of riots. We collected data from both platforms based on the trending hashtags
and draw comparisons based on what are the topics being talked about, who are
the people active on the platforms and how organic is the content generated on
the two platforms. While the content trending on Twitter had strong resentments
towards the event and called for action against rioters and inciters, Parler
content had a strong conservative narrative echoing the ideas of voter fraud
similar to the attacking mob. We also find a disproportionately high
manipulation of traffic on Parler when compared to Twitter.
