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Nov 5, 2020
300,000 people mobilized on Facebook to challenge election results and spread misinformation. And Facebook has just shut the group down, reports Sarah Emerson, “on the basis of attempting to delegitimize the election process, and its role in potentially instigating physical violence.”
This doesn’t mean this messaging has been squashed because people move off the site and onto places like MeWe, a “free speech” alternative to Facebook that has been drawing militia organizers, OneZero reported earlier this week.
