Twenty state attorneys general on Wednesday sent a letter to Facebook calling on the platform to "take additional steps to prevent Facebook from being used to spread disinformation and hate and to ...

A Stop the Steal Facebook group was managed by a loose coalition of right wing operatives, some of whom have worked with former Trump adviser Steve Bannon. The group amassed hundreds of thousands of ...

Facebook is still trying to get a handle on people and groups spreading election misinformation via “Stop the Steal” messaging. The company took down a handful of prominent Facebook pages and at least ...

Facebook missed several opportunities to crack down on the “Stop the Steal” movement that fueled the January 6, insurrection at the U.S Capitol, according to an internal report obtained by BuzzFeed ...

In its short life span, it was one of the fastest growing groups in Facebook’s history and a hub for those trying to delegitimize the election. By Sheera Frenkel OAKLAND, Calif. — The first post in ...

Facebook has officially shut down “Stop the Steal,” a pro-Trump group which had amassed over 364,000 members in less than 48 hours, for promoting election misinformation regarding ongoing vote counts.

Hours after polls closed on Nov. 3, angry Donald Trump supporters on Facebook coalesced around a rallying cry now synonymous with the siege on the U.S. Capitol: "Stop the Steal." Inside Facebook, ...

“Clean your guns,” said Dustin Stockton, one of the administrators of the Facebook Stop the Steal group, on a Facebook Live Stream video to his followers. “Things are going to get worse before they ...