Facebook Is Purging All Content Mentioning “Stop The Steal”
- Facebook Is Purging All Content Mentioning “Stop The Steal”
by Tyler Durden, https://www.zerohedge.com/
As the most unprecedented purge in recent US history continues, shortly after AirBNB announced that it would ban guests associated with hate groups (it was unclear how Airbnb will determine who is and isn’t associated with a “hate group”, although Airbnb was kind enough to inform its clients that it “already runs background checks on all U.S. users when they first begin using the platform”), on Monday Facebook announced that it was removing all content mentioning “stop the steal,” a popular phrase among supporters of Trump’s claims that the election was rigged.
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We are now removing content containing the phrase “stop the steal” under our Coordinating Harm policy from Facebook and Instagram. We removed the original Stop the Steal group in November and have continued to remove Pages, groups and events that violate any of our policies, including calls for violence. We’ve been allowing robust conversations related to the election outcome and that will continue. But with continued attempts to organize events against the outcome of the US presidential election that can lead to violence, and use of the term by those involved in Wednesday’s violence in DC, we’re taking this additional step in the lead up to the inauguration. It may take some time to scale up our enforcement of this new step but we have already removed a significant number of posts.
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The latest crackdown comes amid a raft of emergency measures to stem what Facebook has called are incitements to violence on its platform in the lead up to President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. If only Facebook was as diligent in stopping the spread of incitement to violence in the lead up to this summer and fall’s pervasive BLM protests and antifa riots, it probably would have avoided much of the resulting accusations of political and ideological bias that have emerged in recent days.
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