Many new “Stop the Steal” groups are popping up on Facebook, collectively gaining over 150k members today, with the largest having 55k members. We reported some to @Facebook earlier today. Most sharing election fraud misinformation. 1/

It will be interesting to see how the platform deals with this problem, & what policies it adopts, and whether it is transparent about them. It’s actually a thorny issue. But three things almost nobody is talking about ...2/

..(a) Facebook, for years, allowed its users to be flooded with conspiracy theories and misinfo with little action, so hundreds thousands of Facebook users are primed to believe such conspiracy theories.

AND.... 3/

(b) There are hundreds of other groups on the platform, many we have monitored for months, amplifying the same misinformation content being shared by “StealTheVote” groups, but with different names. Why hasn’t the platform acted to downgrade or shut them down? 4/

(c) Will Facebook implement the same strict policies it’s implementing in the US in Brazil, Myanmar, Philippines, & Saudi Arabia? In the US civil society detected and media helped put pressure? Those resources don’t exist at this scale elsewhere.

For now, interesting to see if Facebook acts on these new groups. They all challenge “election integrity”.