Washington: Facebook has announced that it would remove all the contents from its platform that contains the phrase "stop the seal", which used by the supporters of outgoing US President Donald Trump to allege election fraud.
Trump and his supporters believe that there was massive voters fraud during the November 3 elections. While the allegations are unsubstantiated, his supporters have been using this phrase to organise themselves and often hold protests through social media outlets.
"We are now removing content containing the phrase "stop the steal" under our Coordinating Harm policy from Facebook and Instagram. We removed the original Stop the Steal group in November and have continued to remove Pages, groups and events that violate any of our policies, including calls for violence," Guy Rosen, vice president, integrity, and Monika Bickert, VP, global policy management, said in a blog post on Monday.
"We've been allowing robust conversations related to the election outcome and that will continue," they said.
But with continued attempts to organise events against the outcome of the US presidential election that can lead to violence and use of the term by those involved in Wednesday's violence at the Capitol, the additional step is being taken in the lead up to the inauguration, the Facebook said.
"It may take some time to scale up our enforcement of this new step but we have already removed a significant number of posts," the officials said.
Noting that they began preparing for inauguration day last year, the two said their planning took on new urgency after last week's violence and they are treating the next two weeks as a major civic event.
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