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The fight against election-related misinformation continued for Facebook Thursday, as the social network took down a public group, Stop the Steal 2020, that had attracted over 300,000 members in just two days.
A Facebook spokesperson confirmed the action, saying, “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.”
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