Facebook to remove content containing ‘stop the steal’ phrase

Facebook has announced that it would remove all the contents from its platform that contain the phrase “stop the seal”, which is being used by the supporters of outgoing US President Donald Trump to allege election fraud.

Trump and his supporters believe that there was massive voters fraud during the November 3 elections. While the allegations are unsubstantiated, his supporters have been using this phrase to organise themselves and often hold protests through social media outlets.

“We are now removing content containing the phrase ‘stop the steal’ under our Coordinating Harm policy from Facebook and Instagram. We removed the original ‘Stop the Steal’ group in November and have continued to remove pages, groups and events that violate any of our policies,