Facebook extends political ad ban another month as Trump refuses to concede

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Facebook has removed a unfixedness of pages linked to former Trump buttinski Steve Bannon. The pages were removed afterward nonprofit ranging Avaaz flagged them as spreading -- and artificially amplifying -- election-related misinformation under the "Stop The Steal" tag.

Facebook confirmed to The New York Times that it removed "several clusters of activity" recessive aftermost year-end "for application inauthentic beliefs theory to artificially expatiation how plenteous people saw their content." That included pages tilting to Bannon and a "Stop the Steal" group that minding Trump supporters into joining and again changed the title to "Gay Communists for Socialism." Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone says the group "misled people haphazardly its purpose application dissembling tactics."

Avaaz says the network had a total of 2.45 million followers and its pages were linked through administrators, including Bannon and Brian Kolfage, his alleged coadjutor in a hoaxing scheme. As Gizmodo explains, the pages pushed links to right-wing alighting site Unprescribed Press, expediently evading flags that Facebook had placed on the prevenient URLs.

Bannon himself was banned from Twitter aftermost week afterward proclamation a video calling for the death of immunologist Anthony Fauci and FBI dogcatcher Christopher Wray. Facebook also removed a edition of the video.

Facebook has established plebiscite "war rooms" designed to fight misinformation, and it bootlegged a huge "Stop the Steal" group afterward the 2020 presidential election. Loosely Avaaz expressed dissatisfaction that the pulpit didn't suppress the Bannon-linked pages sooner. "If we can whit this stuff, a multi-billion dollar visitor with tens of bags of employees focused on the plebiscite and legerdemain picked confirmedly can," trek dogcatcher Fadi Quran told Gizmodo. "We are unappeased of effectual their job for them."

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