Facebook Shuts Down ‘Stop the Steal’ Group
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Facebook Shuts Down ‘Stop the Steal’ Group
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#2"On Thursday afternoon, Facebook banned the group on the basis of attempting to delegitimize the election process, and its role in potentially instigating physical violence."
No shit. Democracy is hanging by a thread in the US right now, with a president trying to shut down the democratic count and vote counters fearing for their life from crazies on the right. This is the right move.
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#3"On Thursday afternoon, Facebook banned the group on the basis of attempting to delegitimize the election process, and its role in potentially instigating physical violence." No shit. Democracy is hanging by a thread in the US right now, with a president trying to shut down the democratic count and vote counters fearing for their life from crazies on the right. This is the right move.
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#4There needs to be a citizen group called ‘stop the disunity’ that tries to get people to talk to each other instead of yell at your friends who already agree with you in your social media filter bubbles
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#5"On Thursday afternoon, Facebook banned the group on the basis of attempting to delegitimize the election process, and its role in potentially instigating physical violence." No shit. Democracy is hanging by a thread in the US right now, with a president trying to shut down the democratic count and vote counters fearing for their life from crazies on the right. This is the right move.
If you look closely you'll find that group is trying to draw attention to election irregularities.
Facebook is not an arbiter of truth, it's a platform for staying in contact with others. And as such shouldn't have an opinion either way.
Once it steps outside of that role it's on a hiding to nothing as all sides will find fault - as they are.
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#6People have lost trust in the system.
Its pretty much the worst thing that can happen to systems that are not supported by laws of nature. Fictional structures implode once trust is gone. Financial systems, ideologies, religions.. Gone..
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#7There needs to be a citizen group called ‘stop the disunity’ that tries to get people to talk to each other instead of yell at your friends who already agree with you in your social media filter bubbles
7 people would join it. 6 would be from the same gardening club.
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#8I feel groups like this are the most predictable thing ever, as long as being an outrage junkie is socially rewarded.
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#9"On Thursday afternoon, Facebook banned the group on the basis of attempting to delegitimize the election process, and its role in potentially instigating physical violence." No shit. Democracy is hanging by a thread in the US right now, with a president trying to shut down the democratic count and vote counters fearing for their life from crazies on the right. This is the right move.
If you look closely you'll find that group is trying to draw attention to election irregularities. Facebook is not an arbiter of truth, it's a platform for staying in contact with others. And as such shouldn't have an opinion either way. Once it steps outside of that role it's on a hiding to nothing as all sides will find fault - as they are.
Yes and QAnon claims to #SaveTheChildren. It doesn't mean they're actually making good faith efforts. Specifically, facebook mentions calls to violence.
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#10I wonder what the percentage of people calling for violence was. The article says there were 300k group members, and FB only said that "some" were calling for violence. You can find "some" people calling for violence in any group, so I'd like to know what the difference is here (regardless of whether or not the group has legitimate complaints).