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Crowd Holding Up Phones at the Event
What This Image Shows
A close view into a tightly packed crowd of mostly young adults, shoulder to shoulder and overlapping across the frame. Many are holding smartphones up to photograph or record, and nearly every gaze is directed up and to the left of frame.
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The forest of raised phones is the single most important fact in this frame. Hundreds of people recorded these minutes, which is why the investigation record includes multiple witness accounts of footage that later disappeared from their own devices before they got home. What that crowd captured, and what survives of it, is a running thread through Witnesses and Censorship.
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- Cluster: Unfiled Backlog
- All photo evidence: Photos