US Congress weighs DLive’s role in Capitol riot

US Congress probes DLive's role amid Capitol riot.

US lawmakers have asked Tron founder and BitTorrent CEO Justin Sun to explain how content is moderated on the DLive streaming platform.

In October 2020, the BitTorrent protocol developer announced the acquisition of a service for sharing video content. Earlier, DLive struck a strategic partnership with the organization, migrated to the Tron blockchain and integrated the BTT token.

Lawmakers Raja Krishnamurti and Jackie Speier sent the inquiry as part of the investigation into the January 2021 Capitol riot. They also expect comments from the streaming service’s CEO, Charles Wayn.

We are concerned that online platforms like DLive are used to disseminate extremism that provokes autonomous conflicts and violence,

According to the document, participants in the Capitol riot were broadcasting via the platform. The congressmen demanded that Sun and Wayn provide data on measures to counter dangerous content on DLive.

The authors of the letter are also interested in information on possible cryptocurrency payments to the participants in the unrest. According to the lawmakers, some of them earned “thousands of dollars in DLive’s digital currency.”

“One person received $2,800 in a live broadcast on January 5, 2021, during which he urged his viewers to kill elected officials,” noted the members of Congress.

Sun and Wayn are required to respond to the inquiry by February 12, 2021.

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As Chainalysis analysts reported, Capitol riot participants received $522,000 in Bitcoin in the month before the unrest.

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