Title: 'Stop the Steal' Facebook Group Is Taken Down - The New York Times
Headings: The Rise and Fall of the ‘Stop the Steal’ Facebook Group
Facebook and Trump
The Rise and Fall of the ‘Stop the Steal’ Facebook Group

Content: Interactions with the Facebook group soared to 36 posts a minute on Thursday morning, up from roughly one post a minute, according to CrowdTangle data. Mr. Posobiec, Mr. Alexander and Amy Kremer did not immediately respond to requests for comment. At Facebook, executives were notified of the group by Facebook moderators as they began flagging posts for potential calls for violence and protests to disrupt the vote. The company also received calls from journalists about the group and its explosive growth. By midmorning, executives were discussing whether they should remove Stop the Steal, said one employee involved in the discussions who was not authorized to speak publicly. Facebook took down the group on Thursday at 2 p.m. Eastern. Ms. Kremer said that she was angry that Facebook had removed her group and that she was in discussions with the company to reinstate it. She accused Facebook, along with other social media companies, of censoring the Stop the Steal movement. “Facebook had other options,” she said. “ They were flagging our posts and we could have worked with them.