Ken McIntire
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Our Preparations Ahead of Inauguration Day
January 11, 2021
By Guy Rosen, VP Integrity, and Monika Bickert, VP Global Policy Management
Update on Saturday, January 16, 2021 at 11:00AM PT:
We are banning ads that promote weapon accessories and protective equipment in the US at least through January 22, out of an abundance of caution. We already prohibit ads for weapons, ammunition and weapon enhancements like silencers. But we will now also prohibit ads for accessories such as gun safes, vests and gun holsters in the US.
Update on January 15, 2021 at 1:57PM PT:
We’re monitoring for signals of violence or other threats both in Washington, D.C. and across all 50 states. In the lead up to Inauguration Day, we have implemented a series of additional measures to continue preventing attempts to use our services for violence. This includes our ongoing pause on all political advertising. And, as we did in the weeks after the presidential election, we are promoting accurate information about the election and the violence at the Capitol instead of content that our systems predict may be less accurate, delegitimizes the election or portrays the rioters as victims. We have also implemented specific measures to reduce opportunities for abuse in Groups.
Building on these steps, we have added two additional measures to further prevent people from trying to use our services to incite violence.
We are blocking the creation of any new Facebook events happening in close proximity to locations including the White House, the US Capitol building and any of the state capitol buildings through Inauguration Day. Our operations center is also conducting a secondary review of all Facebook events related to the inauguration and removing ones that violate our policies. And, as we did in the lead up to and following the US presidential election, we are continuing to block event creation in the US by non-US based accounts and Pages.
We are also restricting some features for people in the US based on signals such as repeat violations of our policies. These restrictions include blocking these accounts from creating live videos or creating an event, Group or Page.
We will continue to monitor and add additional measures as needed.
Originally published on January 11, 2021 at 1:05PM PT:
We began preparing for Inauguration Day last year. But our planning took on new urgency after last week’s violence in Washington, D.C., and we are treating the next two weeks as a major civic event. We’re taking additional steps and using the same teams and technologies we used during the general election to stop misinformation and content that could incite further violence during these next few weeks.
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, including calls for violence. We’ve been allowing robust conversations related to the election outcome and that will continue. But with continued attempts to organize events against the outcome of the US presidential election that can lead to violence, and use of the term by those involved in Wednesday’s violence in DC, we’re taking this additional step in the lead up to the inauguration. It may take some time to scale up our enforcement of this new step but we have already removed a significant number of posts.
Our teams are working 24/7 to enforce our policies around the inauguration. We will keep our Integrity Operations Center operating at least through January 22 to monitor and respond to threats in real time. We already had it active ahead of Georgia’s runoff elections and Congress’s counting of the Electoral College votes in the US presidential election. We extended it due to the violence at the Capitol last week.
As was the case through the 2020 elections, we’ve continued to proactively reach out to federal and local law enforcement and we are providing information in response to valid legal requests. As always, we will continue to remove content, disable accounts and work with law enforcement when there is a risk of physical harm or direct threats to public safety.
In addition to the indefinite suspension of President Trump’s account that we announced on January 7, we’re keeping our pause in place on all ads in the US about politics or elections. This means that we aren’t allowing any ads from politicians, including President Trump.
We are also connecting people with reliable information and high-quality news about the inauguration and the transition process. After the inauguration, our label on posts that attempt to delegitimize the election results will reflect that Joe Biden is the sitting president. Our Voting Information Center will stay active on Facebook and Instagram through the inauguration so it can continue to help people find reliable information and updates about the electoral process.
During inauguration week, we will add a news digest to Facebook News as a curated place for people to find reliable news about the inauguration. This will include live video of the inauguration at the US Capitol on January 20. Facebook News often includes news digests dedicated to events of national or global significance, such as “COVID-19” or “Unrest in America” with stories selected by the curation team. There will also be curated live video of the inauguration and other major moments on Facebook Watch.
We’ve had emergency measures in place since before the US elections such as not recommending civic groups for people to join. Last week, we implemented several additional ones, including increasing the requirement of Group admins to review and approve posts before they can go up, automatically disabling comments on posts in Groups that start to have a high rate of hate speech or content that incites violence, and using AI to further demote content that likely violates our policies. We’re keeping these measures in place.
We will stay vigilant to additional threats and take further action if necessary to keep people safe and informed.
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Libby Spencer
Boycotting Delta, Coke Cola and MLB, for weighing on Georgia voting laws.
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Kurt Schank
For what's it worth...The COLA will be late if the government doesn't get funded
Lilly Cooper
Shared from a friend.. please feel free to share ...
So here’s my beef. As a 69 year old combat veteran that has raised two children I am offended by teenagers that won’t listen to parents and teachers or authority in general, yelling that they demand laws are changed to prevent “ school shootings” . Banning certain weapons, demanding stronger background checks, etc.
When these “ children” stop isolating other children, stop using, abusing drugs, stop drinking, stop drinking and driving, stop texting and phone usage while driving, all the things their parents demand but fall on deaf ears, end the needles deaths they are part of, intimidate others to do, that’s about when Ill listen to them. Their demands are disingenuous and hold no merit to me.
Their protest are driven by anti NRA, anti Trump dollars and they are being used by the media and the liberal causes. If the “ protest” occurred on a Sunday, or after school, they might mean a little more. Not much but a little.
There is so much they can do to prevent the deaths of students, create a more friendly atmosphere to learn in and they refuse to see it.
This is where I would demand they honor existing laws, honor their fathers and mothers, respect their teachers and those in authority and each other. How many shootings would be prevented if they stood up and take responsibility for their and each other’s actions?
Don’t demand an old man do anything. I don’t deal with ultimatums very well.
Carol Chisam
PRESIDEST TRUMP IS THE ONLY ONE FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. F*CK ALL THE RHINO SENATORS. WE NEED TO VOTE THESE TRAITORS OUT OF OFFICE.
Mary Harris
THE GREATEST POWERFUL WEAPONS WE HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY ARE PATRRIOTIC PRAYING AMERICANS !!!
Todd Martinell
Shared from: Patel Patriot..
One thing to keep in mind about Devolution is how few people likely know the operation is even happening.
Trump and his key cabinet members, a select handful in the DoD, the 11 Combatant Commanders, and then those performing the Mission Essential Functions (IMO its special ops doing so).
That means theoretically it could be as little as 100, maybe 200 people carrying out this completely legal and constitutional Continuity of Government operation. Could be more but depends on what the MEFs are.
So just like the rest of us, nobody in the MILITARY knows devolution is happening outside that small number involved.
Biden’s actions are “waking up” the rest of the military too.
Everything is building to Trump returning with maximum public support which will minimize the fallout.
Trump walked away on January 20th to avoid a civil war. Walking away saved lives.
He’ll be welcomed back with open arms by much more than 74 million Americans.
