The social media giant said in a blog post that it will increase its application against the phrase because it was used by those involved in last week’s riots at the U.S. Capitol.
“With continued attempts to organize events against the outcome of the U.S. presidential election that could lead to violence and the use of the term by those involved in Wednesday’s violence in DC, we are taking this extra step ahead of the inauguration. , “Guy Rosen, Facebook ‘s vice president of integrity, wrote in a post about preparing the company for inauguration day.
On election day, the slogan “stop the robbery” quickly became a rallying cry among supporters of President Donald Trump, many of whom were incited by Trump himself and his allies with false allegations of election fraud. . As a hashtag, its origins go back years, according to Facebook’s CrowdTangle analysis tool, but it has become very popular in recent months as a meeting place for conspiracy theories about the outcome of elections.
The blog post comes as tech companies face growing skepticism about whether they did too little, too late to prevent the violence that ravaged the Capitol, and which remains a risk to the inauguration of the president-elect Joe Biden next week.