Facebook is planning to enact new measures to make it more difficult for election misinformation to spread virally across its platform, two people with knowledge of the matter said, as the outcome of the presidential race remained uncertain. As part of a heightened campaign against election-related disinformation and calls to violence, the company also took down a new Facebook group, Stop the Steal, which had more than 320,000 members and which Facebook said had been “organized around the delegitimization of the election process,” and that a number of the group’s members had originated calls for real-world violence.
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