美国国土安全部周五表示，他们观察到一些人“在线活动越来越多，但程度适中”，这些人呼吁暴力，以回应对2020年选举欺诈的毫无根据的指控，并与前总统唐纳德·特朗普将复职的阴谋论有关。
根据美国广播公司新闻获得的DHS情报和分析办公室公告，“一些与恢复前总统特朗普相关的阴谋论包括，如果预期结果没有实现，就呼吁采取暴力行动”。
那儿有没有证据这表明在2020年的选举中存在广泛的选民欺诈。
一名DHS高级官员解释说:“在过去几天里，发生的事情是公众的能见度大大提高，这意味着讨论和这些理论已经从被包含在阴谋论和极端主义网络社区中，转移到成为网络论坛或更多公共网络论坛的讨论主题，甚至在某种媒体生态系统中。”。
DHS在公告中说，他们没有具体证据表明有一个阴谋即将发生。
“随着公众对这些故事的关注度增加，我们担心会有更多人呼吁暴力。报告显示，这些活动的时间可能发生在2021年8月，尽管我们缺乏关于具体地块或计划行动的信息，”发给州和地方合作伙伴的公告写道。
这位DHS高级官员解释说，国防部“没有闲工夫等到我们发现了关于潜在攻击地点和时间的特定信息之后”，再根据威胁环境对潜在威胁采取行动。
“过去的情况表明，对暴力的呼吁可能会在公共领域迅速扩大，并可能发生在公共渠道之外。因此，孤独的罪犯和小团体的个人可以动员暴力，几乎没有警告，”公告说。
这位高级官员说，从1月6日对国会大厦的冲击“可能反映日益增长的威胁的信息可能会在公共论坛上传播。”
这位官员说:“当前的威胁环境在很大程度上是由外国政府、外国恐怖组织和国内极端主义思想领袖在网上传播的阴谋论和其他虚假陈述推动的，并被倾向于参与暴力的个人所消费。
这位官员指出了1月6日的事件和对犹太教堂的袭击匹兹堡和波威市以加州为例。
这位DHS高级官员还指出了DHS在生产产品时必须保持的平衡。
这位高级官员说:“我们不想反应过度，但我们想确保我们在尽可能早的阶段向执法人员和其他负责安全的人员提供意识，这对减轻风险至关重要。”他补充说，发布公告时考虑到了公民权利和公民自由。
Homeland Security warns of 'increasing but modest' threat of violence from Trump conspiracy
The Department of Homeland Security said Friday they have observed "an increasing but modest level of activity online" by people who are calling for violence in response to baseless claims of 2020 election fraud and related to the conspiracy theory that former President Donald Trump will be reinstated.
"Some conspiracy theories associated with reinstating former President Trump have included calls for violence if desired outcomes are not realized," according to a DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis bulletin obtained by ABC News.
There isno evidencethat shows there was widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election.
"Over the last few days what has occurred is there's been much more public visibility, meaning the discussions and these theories have migrated away from being contained within the conspiracy and extremist online communities, to where they're being the topic of discussion on web forums, or more public web forums, and even within the sort of media ecosystem," a senior DHS official explained.
DHS says in the bulletin they do not have specific evidence there is a plot imminent.
"As public visibility of the narratives increases, we are concerned about more calls to violence. Reporting indicates that the timing for these activities may occur during August 2021, although we lack information on specific plots or planned actions," the bulletin sent to state and local partners reads.
The department "does not have the luxury of waiting till we uncover information with the level of specificity, regarding a potential location and the time of an attack" to act on potential threats due to the threat environment, the senior DHS official explained.
"Past circumstances have illustrated that calls for violence could expand rapidly in the public domain and may be occurring outside of publicly available channels. As such, lone offenders and small groups of individuals could mobilize to violence with little-to-no warning," the bulletin says.
The senior official said that one of the lessons learned fromthe Jan. 6 storming of the Capitolis "that information that may reflect a growing threat may be communicated on public forums."
"The current threat environment is one which is fueled in large part by conspiracy theories and other false narratives that are spread online by foreign governments, by foreign terrorist groups and by domestic extremist thought leaders, and are consumed by individuals who are predisposed to engage in violence," the official said.
The official pointed to the events of Jan. 6 and the attacks on the synagogues inPittsburghandPoway, California, as examples.
The senior DHS official also pointed to the balance DHS has to walk when putting out products.
"We don't want to overreact, but we want to make sure that we are at the earliest stage possible providing awareness to law enforcement and other personnel who are responsible for security and are critical to mitigating risk," the senior official said, adding the bulletin was done with civil rights and civil liberties in mind.
