• March 28, 2024

GAME CHANGER: Facebook Played Major Role Coordinating ‘Capitol Riot’

After the Capitol attack last week, big tech companies and liberals banded together to torpedo Parler, the popular social media site that promoted free speech as an alternative to Twitter and Facebook. The left claimed that Parler was responsible for the tragic ordeal that claimed 5 lives including 14-year veteran, Ashli Babbitt.

However, new information has emerged that Parler was maybe not as guilty as the mainstream media has claimed. Imagine that?

In fact, as it turns out Facebook’s COO Sharyl Sandberg widely downplayed the platform’s involvement in the so-called riots.

Here is more from Newswars:

Over the last week, Twitter alternative Parler was summarily executed by Amazon, which kicked the conservative social media platform off of its servers due to ‘far-right’ users coordinating last week’s protest at the Capitol which turned into a riot after a small group split off, gained access to the Capitol building, and ran amok.

Now we learn that Facebook also had a giant role in coordinating the so-called ‘Capitol Riots’ which President Trump was just impeached over on Wednesday for allegedly inciting the incident.

 

According to the Washington Post, a “growing body of evidence shows that Facebook played a much larger role” than COO Sharyl Sandberg claimed in a Monday interview livestreamed by Reuters, in what the Post described as ‘deflecting blame.’

“I think these events were largely organized on platforms that don’t have our abilities to stop hate, don’t have our standards, and don’t have our transparency,” said Sandberg.

She noted that last week the company took down content affiliated with the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory and the Proud Boys extremist group, as well as content affiliated with the pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” movement seeking to delegitimize election results. She said there was likely to be some content on Facebook because the company’s enforcement was “never perfect.” –Washington Post

Au contraire Sharyl, it’s far more than just ‘some’ content.

According to the Post, the hashtag #StopTheSteal was still widely in use as of Monday, when a search revealed that 128,000 people were talking about it, and in many cases using it to coordinate for the rally, according to Eric Feinberg, Vice President with the Coalition for a Safer Web.

What’s more, two dozen GOP officials and organizations in at least 12 states coordinated bus trips to the rally via Facebook, according to Media Matters.

“BUS TRIP to DC … #StoptheSteal. If your passions are running hot and you’re intending to respond to the President’s call for his supporters to descend on DC on Jan 6, LISTEN UP!” wrote the Polk County Republican Party of North Carolina in a Facebook post which has since been deleted.

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