A report says Facebook allowed groups to glorify violence during the 2020 US election and in the weeks leading to the deadly riots at the Capitol in January.
A report says Facebook allowed groups to glorify violence during the 2020 US election and in the weeks leading to the deadly riots at the Capitol in January. A vaaz, a non-profit advocacy group that says it seeks to protect democracies from misinformation, identified 267 pages and groups on Facebook that it says spread violence-glorifying material in the heat of the 2020 election to a combined following of 32 million users. More than two-thirds of the groups and pages had names that aligned with several domestic extremist movements, the report found. The first, boogaloo, promotes a second US civil war and the breakdown of modern society. The second is the QAnon conspiracy, which claims that former president Donald Trump is waging a secret battle against the “deep state” and a sect of powerful Satan-worshipping paedophiles who dominate Hollywood, big business, the media and government.
