Stefan Mileschin

Failed to stop it

Social notworking giant Facebook knew that the Stop the Steal movement was about to mount the Jan. 6th Capitol insurrection and failed to stop it.

An internal task force found that Facebook failed to take appropriate action against them and hoped the company could 'do better next time' white neo-nazi terrorists attempt to seize control of the capital when democracy fails to work for them.

Last month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified in front of a House of Representatives committee that his company had done its part "to secure the integrity of the election".

While the social network did not catch everything, the billionaire chief executive said, Facebook had "made our services inhospitable to those who might do harm" in the lead-up to the attempted coup.

However, an internal company report reached a far different conclusion. The report was shared on Facebook's employee communication platform last month.

The report admits that the people connected to "Stop the Steal," a far-right movement based on the conspiracy theory that former president Donald Trump won the 2020 US presidential election, used the social network to foment an attempted coup.

The document explicitly states that Facebook activity from people connected to Stop the Steal and other Trump loyalist groups, including the Patriot Party, played a role and that the company's emphasis on rooting out fake accounts and "inauthentic behaviour" held it back from taking preemptive action when real people were involved.

https://fudzilla.com/news/52762-face...l-insurrection