Facebook Removing All Content That Contains the Words “Stop the Steal”

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In an announcement, Facebook said that it will remove any content that mentions the words “stop the steal.”

“We are now removing content containing the phrase ‘stop the steal’ under our Coordinating Harm policy from Facebook and Instagram,” the statement said. “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.”

The statement also said,

“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 moved a significant number of posts.”

Facebook’s restriction is the latest in a crackdown by big tech companies against President Trump’s efforts to expose voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

After a protest at the Capitol Building following a rally hosted by the President, Trump was banned from Twitter for life and suspended indefinitely from Facebook, Instagram, and other online platforms.

Twitter also announced additional measures the company is taking after the events at the Capitol.

“Given the violent events in Washington, DC, and increased risk of harm, we began permanently suspending thousands of accounts that were primarily dedicated to sharing QAnon content on Friday afternoon,” Twitter said in a statement. “Many of the individuals impacted by this updated enforcement action held multiple accounts, driving up the total numbers of accounts impacted.”

Twitter also said,

“Since Friday, more than 70,000 accounts have been suspended as a result of our efforts, with many instances of a single individual operating numerous accounts. These accounts were engaged in sharing harmful QAnon-associated content at scale and were primarily dedicated to the propagation of this conspiracy theory across the service.”

Additionally, many conservative Twitter users were complaining of losing a significant amount of followers in recent days. In response, Twitter put out a statement that said, “in order to prevent spam, we regularly challenge accounts to confirm details like email and phone number. Until that info is confirmed, these accounts aren’t included in follower counts.”

6 thoughts on “Facebook Removing All Content That Contains the Words “Stop the Steal”

  1. Strange how no action was taken against all the violence in Portland, Seattle,NY and other places. Guess BLM and those people are special. It is such BS but then the media is run by democrats.

  2. Facebook . .I have been a practicing Christian since my teenage years and always tried to follow Gods leading in my life .Right after Trump threw his hat into The contest for President , I was pleased because , being a business man , I admired him for his effort to make it in spite of never having been in any typed it politics ! Anyway , about a week , after he entered, God awakened me from a deep sleep and said ” Paul , I have selected Donald Trump as your new President and have anointed him as your new MOSES !! Follow him ! ! And this is the reason that he was so adamant in knowing that the election was stolen ! God wasn’t through with him because because he was leading us back to ” One Nation Under God ! ” I prayed for him every night and was thrilled with all of his accomplishments both nationally and internationally ! ! He was leading us with his big heart and doesn’t have a mean bone in his whole body ! Facebook’s failure to pick up on the criminal activities of the Biden family certainly didn’t help our Nation and now , as he becomes President , we all may suffer the loss of all of Trumps accomplishments.I’m an 86 year old author and blessed with all of my faculties ! Father of ten beautiful daughters and beautiful wife of 36 years ! Thanks

  3. I don’t Twitter! It’s a word that sounds like twerking and because of my age and a bad back, I don’t do that either. So, frankly, I don’t really care what you do.

  4. It is disgraceful what these platforms are doing censoring posts. The last time I looked we have free speech in America. Especially since enemies of America can post whatever they like and are not censored.

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