Internal Facebook Report Says Company Failed to Shut 'Stop the Steal'

Less than a week after Mark Zuckerberg’s appearance in front of a House of Representatives committee, an internal company report concluded that Facebook failed to stop a highly influential movement from using its platform to delegitimize the election, encourage violence, and help incite the Capitol riot. Shared on Facebook’s employee communication platform last month, the report is a blunt assessment of how people connected to “Stop the Steal,” a far-right movement based on the conspiracy theory that former president Donald Trump won the 2020 U.S. presidential election, used the social network to foment an attempted coup.

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