Facebook shuts down Trump-linked “Stop the Steal” Group, which was spreading disinfo about the election and amassed 360,000+ followers since launching a day ago
There is a pro-Trump “Stop The Steal” group on Facebook alleging all kinds of baseless election fraud. A rabbithole of misinformation. The group is gaining about 1,000 new members EVERY 10 SECONDS at the moment.
Once Reuters and a majority of independent decision desks at major media outlets, including ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, CNN and AP project a winner, we'll update the notifications running across the top of Facebook and Instagram with the projected winner of the election. https://twitter.…
Big yikes. Lots of calls to action in this Substack, which is being shared heavily by the Stop the Steal FB group. “Participate in citizen journalism by monitoring and documenting ballot counting” This has led to the harassment of poll workers in MI & AZ https://mission.substack.…
There are now over a dozen STOP THE STEAL groups on @facebook, some with tens of thousands of followers. Not hard to find. What will it take for Facebook to take this seriously? https://twitter.com/...
The Stop the Steal group was active on Facebook for more than 22 hours during which time executives were “discussing” if the group needed to come down. Why was there even a discussion, and why did it take so long for them to act? @sheeraf @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/...
Since election night, Eric Trump's Twitter feed, with 4.4m followers, has become a major source of election disinformation. He prematurely claimed victory in Pennsylvania, spread rumors and lies about voting, and has mostly gotten away with it. My story: https://www.buzzfeednews.…
Facebook has just shut down a massive, fast-growing pro-Trump group called Stop the Steal, which was aimed at delegitimizing the election and had been organizing real-world demonstrations against vote-counting efforts. https://onezero.medium.com/... by @SarahNEmerson
While several states continue to count votes, we wanted to share a reminder of the steps we'll take to provide reliable information across our products once there is a projected presidential winner.
🚨🚨BREAKING🚨 🚨 Facebook has shut down the Stop the Steal Facebook group that had 365,000 members. Is this how social media treated Black Lives Matter protestors? @AmyKremer @KylieJaneKremer @WomenforTrump
We reached out to @Facebook requesting a statement about violent rhetoric posted in the last 24 hours in Alamo City Trump Train, the same group that harassed the Biden-Harris bus in Texas. 4 hours later, we have not received a statement about the group. https://www.snopes.com/...
So - Facebook has an internal metric for “violence & incitement trends”- SO WHAT ACTIONS ARE THEY TAKING TO RESTRICT USE ON THEIR PLATFORM? https://twitter.com/...
Facebook has allowed the radicalization of millions of Americans. The FBI should begin working with the Biden admin to shutdown & dismantle these hate groups & hold FB accountable for any/all hate crimes organized via their platform. Enough is enough. We Must #EradicateTheHate
Facebook groups are turning into election disinformation vectors Get this crap under control @sherylsandberg. Willfully profiting from the spread of destructive disinformation is turning FB into Fascistbook. https://www.axios.com/...
In just it's first couple hours, more than 100,000 people joined the Women for America First, Stop the Steal Facebook Group. https://mission.substack.com/ ...
NEW from me + @BrandyZadrozny : Pro-Trump operatives, some who were behind #WeBuildTheWall, coordinated those viral #StopTheSteal Facebook events. Facebook shut them down. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
UPDATE: Facebook has removed the “Stop the Steal” group spreading dangerous misinformation about vote counts. This should never have been allowed to happen. Facebook must now suspend the operators of this page to prevent them from simply starting again. https://twitter.com/...
I am not aware of one single example of Facebook or Twitter ever censoring, flagging, or suspending any leftist who claimed Trump's presidency was illegitimate, or that Kavanaugh and ACB are illegitimate justices
Facebook officially removed the first “Stop the Steal” group - only after it had amassed over 300,000 members and had multiple calls for violence. Like clockwork, a new group has already been created👇 Once again, Facebook doing the bare minimum ineffective in combatting this. htt…
The “Stop the Steal” Facebook group was littered with calls to take up arms and a civil war. 350,000 people joined Stop The Steal, and promoted real-life events, before Facebook shut it down. Its growth was not nearly as organic as it seemed. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Facebook Shuts Down Massive ‘Stop the Steal’ Group https://onezero.medium.com/... This was example of rapid manipulation we are seeing, with ex-post response. The group pushing false info, created by a GOP digital firm, reached 300K members in 2 days https://www.defenseone.com/..…
NEW: Facebook started blocking hashtags like #sharpiegate and #stopthesteal, two baseless pro-Trump conspiracies that claim Democrats are working to steal the election https://techcrunch.com/...
Facebook took action against the #StopTheSteal page, after it had amassed 360,000 followers in less than 24 hours, story from @daithaigilbert https://www.vice.com/...
Facebook employees are very worried about the platform's role in organizing violent groups this week, a source in the company told us. “People are frustrated and tired, and are looking for leadership to be decisive. So far, we're disappointed.” https://www.nbcnews.com/...
This is — let's be clear — deeply fucked. Both dems and GOP are fielding some absurdly astroturfed or manipulated “protests” right now, but who fucking cares, let them. Facebook unilaterally shutting down protest organizing is predictable and not new, but it's still bad. https://…
Facebook's efforts included barring the group from showing up in election related searches and even direct searches for “stop the steal” Citing repeated “worrying calls for violence,” Facebook finally pulled down the group by 2 pm ET New from @oneunderscore__ & @BrandyZadrozny ht…
I am shocked that these grassroots campaigns of concerned citizens are actually coordinated astroturfing campaigns by GOP operatives to intentionally sow chaos and subvert democracy https://twitter.com/...
🚨 NEW - Facebook has taken down this Stop the steal group with over 300,000 members. It contained dozens of threats of violence over unsubstantiated claims of voter fraud and rigged elections. https://twitter.com/...
1) it's a good decision and 2) it's interesting to see FB try to draw a line around efforts directed at the “delegitimization of the election process” without an examination of, you know, any of the antecedent content that led to this moment. https://twitter.com/...
For two days, the group promoted baseless claims about election fraud. On Thursday afternoon, FB banned the group on the basis of attempting to delegitimize the election process, and its role in potentially instigating physical violence. https://read.medium.com/ScDLubY
This pro-Trump Facebook group continues to gain tens of thousands of new followers, - now up to 360K - and continues to spread disinformation about election fraud, advocate for gun violence and call for a civil war Facebook has still done nothing. https://www.vice.com/...
BREAKING: Facebook has banned the massive “Stop the Steal” group for attempting to delegitimize election results and potentially inciting physical violence. The group was also fundraising for protests across the country to challenge election results https://onezero.medium.com/...
This was coming. What does it mean? We would all (I think) agree that at one extreme a phone company should not scan your SMS for misinformation, and at the other that Youtube should not put it on the front page. But what should Gmail do? Campaign Monitor? Wordpress? Substack? ht…
I asked Facebook about this three hours ago and was told it was being assessed. It's a public group and the engagement in it is pretty massive. As of now it's still open. https://twitter.com/...