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On April 20, 2023, BuzzFeed CEO Jonah Peretti sent a memo to employees announcing that BuzzFeed News would soon shut down.
Encouraged by President Donald Trump's dangerous rhetoric of refusing to accept the results of the election, his supporters — including far-right groups — rioted on the streets of Washington, DC, and Olympia, Washington, on Saturday night, resulting in violence, injuries, and multiple arrests.
Two months after Trump told the Proud Boys, a far-right men’s organization with a history of instigating violence, to “stand back and stand by,” the group was involved in violent clashes with counterprotesters at the so-called Stop the Steal rally in DC.