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Capitol Hill lawmakers experience surge of swatting calls, bomb threats in wake of November election

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73% Informative

Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger testified in a Senate hearing that there had been more than 50 swatting attacks on members of Congress over the previous month .

These are incidents in which someone falsely claims a bomb or mass shooting at the home of a public official in order to draw a SWAT team response and potentially trigger a tragedy.

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74

Informative language

72

Neutral language

46

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

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46

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likely offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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short-lived

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