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Facebook bans pro-Trump ‘Stop the Steal’ page for ‘delegitimizing’ election
Claimed there were calls for violence but provided no evidence.
Facebook has removed a pro-Trump group page called “Stop the Steal,” which had drawn some 350,000 members since the presidential election Tuesday.
The Gateway Pundit reported Facebook killed the page by Women for America, claiming it was “organized around the delegitimization of the election process” and members were calling for violence.
“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,” said a statement from Facebook. “The group was organized around the delegitimization of the election process, and we saw worrying calls for violence from some members of the group.”
However, Facebook did not provide evidence of “calls for violence.”