News Alert: Attacks on Biden’s election flooded Facebook groups after Election Day, new analysis shows
| In the weeks between Joe Biden's election victory and the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, Facebook groups swelled with at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of the election, with many calling for executions or other political violence, an investigation by ProPublica and The Washington Post has found. The barrage — averaging at least 10,000 posts a day, a scale not reported previously — turned the groups into incubators for the baseless claims voiced by supporters of President Donald Trump as they stormed the Capitol. |
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| | | | News Alert | Jan. 4, 8:01 a.m. EST | | | | | In the weeks between Joe Biden's election victory and the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol, Facebook groups swelled with at least 650,000 posts attacking the legitimacy of the election, with many calling for executions or other political violence, an investigation by ProPublica and The Washington Post has found. The barrage — averaging at least 10,000 posts a day, a scale not reported previously — turned the groups into incubators for the baseless claims voiced by supporters of President Donald Trump as they stormed the Capitol. | | | | | |
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