Figure 3

Number of political dissent events in the United States. Daily number of political dissent events (blue curve) derived from the GDELT news in the United States, from the middle of December 2020 to the middle of January 2021, and three news articles published on the 6th and 7th of January. GDELT depicts a noticeable rise of the events related to political dissent on the 6th of January 2021, the day of the “Storming of the United States Capitol”, and a peak of news related to the topic on the 7th of January 2021 (vertical dashed red line)