Facebook took down the “Stop the Steal” group, which had grown to over 350,000 members within 24 hours of its formation and was adding new members at the rate of 25,000 per hour at the time it was shut down by Big Brother. Members of the group urged moving it to Telegram or elsewhere. The Parler group @StopTheSteal is, at present, much much smaller. Here’s what Facebook had to say for itself:
“In line with the exceptional measures that we are taking during this period of heightened tension, we have removed the Group ‘Stop the Steal,’ which was creating real-world events.
“The group was organized around the delegitimization of the election process, and we saw worrying calls for violence from some members of the group.” Creating “real world events” — well that certainly can’t be allowed! The #stopthesteal hashtag may also be banned on Facebook.
As of midday on Friday, over 40% of Trump’s tweets over Thursday and Friday had been marked as potentially misleading, requiring an extra click to read them, and preventing likes and direct retweets without quotes.
On other services, a “Stop the Steal” discord server that was just set up has seen its links killed, and a pastebin post with a collection of news accounts about discarded / extra / fraudulent ballots displays an interstitial page (like Twitter) before allowing you to see the post.
Good thing our would-be tech overlords can’t delete car caravans, rallies, protests, or other events!
