Facebookâs Internal Probe Finds Failures That Stoked January 6 Insurrection
Facebook executives have been dismissive from the start about attempts to hold them accountable for their social media platform's role in inciting and organizing the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitolâincluding CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony to Congress last month in which he evaded questions about his company's culpability, saying: "I think that the responsibility here lies with the people who took the actions to break the law and do the insurrection."
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shows that the company failed to take action against "Stop the Steal" and other accounts where false information about the election was widely propagated in an attempt to delegitimize the 2020 election, violence was encouraged, and where much of the insurrection was organized. Though the report was completed shortly after Zuckerberg's testimony, it essentially corroborated a report by the nonprofit advocacy group Avaaz days before he testified that found Facebook's culpability in the Capitol siege extended to well over a year before the event.