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Trump supporters are flocking to alternative social networks to plan election-office protests after Facebook banned groups that attracted hundreds of thousands of members
business insider ^ | Nov 6 2020 | Paige Leskin

Posted on 11/06/2020 11:16:08 PM PST by Morgana

Pro-Trump activists have found a new online home to protest vote-counting less than 24 hours after Facebook shut down an organizing group of more than 365,000 members for breaking its policies around inciting violence.

Thousands have flocked to such groups on MeWe, a social platform emphasizing users' rights and privacy that anti-lockdown protesters turned to earlier this year after they were kicked off Facebook. Nearly a dozen "Stop the Steal" groups have popped up since Thursday on MeWe, Business Insider has found, filled with posts claiming voter fraud and organizing state-by-state protests of election results.

"Stop the Steal," a conspiracy theory that accuses Democrats of stealing the presidential election for Joe Biden, is just one of the rallying cries some Republicans have latched onto to dispute the results of Tuesday's presidential election. These baseless allegations — which echo similar ones made by President Donald Trump on Twitter — have encouraged some to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the election outcome as votes continue to be counted across the US, including in some key battleground states.

The real-life results of these claims and have already been seen across the country. Protesters, some armed, have gathered at vote-counting centers in Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, and Nevada to demand those inside stop tallying up votes from mail-in and absentee ballots.

The vote counts from Arizona, Georgia, and Nevada, as well as from Pennsylvania, are increasingly signaling a victory for Biden. Insider and our partners at Decision Desk HQ called the race for Biden earlier Friday.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: anticonservative; censorship; electionfraud; facebook; fascistbook; faux; fauxnews; mariabartiromo; markzuckerberg; mewe; parler; tds; twitter; voterfraud; zuckerberg
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1 posted on 11/06/2020 11:16:08 PM PST by Morgana
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To: PghBaldy; Jane Long; bray; lightman

more on that subject of “stop the steal”


2 posted on 11/06/2020 11:19:03 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

After four years of Russia, Russia, Russia, suddenly the press is now against conspiracy theories.


3 posted on 11/06/2020 11:23:32 PM PST by kevao (BIBLICAL JESUS: Give your money to the poor. SOCIALIST JESUS: Give your neighbor's money to the poor)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

4 posted on 11/06/2020 11:23:40 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: kevao

Actually I wish to thank Russia, voting for Trump is the best thing I ever did for this country.


5 posted on 11/06/2020 11:28:26 PM PST by Morgana ( Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Morgana

Why were they still at Facebook to start with?


6 posted on 11/06/2020 11:34:24 PM PST by Mozilla (The Reckoning Day Is Near.)
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To: Morgana

I’ve never had an account on CuckBook anyhow. Cuckerberg can pound sand.


7 posted on 11/06/2020 11:39:18 PM PST by Mr. Rabbit
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To: Mozilla
Why were they still at Facebook to start with?

Grandkids.

8 posted on 11/06/2020 11:39:27 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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To: kevao

And isn’t it amazing that the same people who have been claiming Russian interference in the 2016 election, interfered with the 2020 election.

#VerifyEveryVote


9 posted on 11/06/2020 11:42:17 PM PST by ALASKA (Trump will win resoundingly, but it's not going to be pretty.)
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To: Morgana

Do we know if there may be a possibility to re-vote....in person, on one date, in. person....as always?


10 posted on 11/06/2020 11:57:19 PM PST by BunnySlippers (I Love BULL MARKETS!)
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To: higgmeister

Same. Relatives.

When an entire country (the Philippines) uses a social media platform, you have to use it. My relatives flatly refuse to use other contact methods including WhatsApp, Viber and Skype as no one else really uses them.

100% chance that they won’t jump on MeWe or others.


11 posted on 11/06/2020 11:57:56 PM PST by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: Morgana
I joined FB around 2011. I didn't join it to socialize though, I joined it for political discourse. I 'follow' a myriad of news organizations but there are other groups I enjoy, history, vintage news etc. Never had any issues until this year. I was suspended 3 times; 2 times in the past six months. I have been prevented from posting positive things about Donald Trump; they've removed content from my timeline arbitrarily and it's increasingly involved in printing propaganda by it's 'fact checks'.

Anyway they allowed the Russia bullshit coverage to stand. Never any fact checks, never even tagged it, but Patriot groups, like this one are being removed at a rapid rate and yet, BLM groups are allowed to organize terrorist activities. I reported one group, 'Shut down D.C.' because they actually had video of their terrorizing people and neighborhoods in the dead of night and were out there actually stating (and organizing) large groups to commit violence against whitey and, after the election, the WH itself. The response? 'This doesn't violate "our" community standards' then they suggest that 'I' can block the offending group. Yeah, that'll take care of that.

Depending on how the results play out, I'm considering shutting it down completely.

12 posted on 11/07/2020 12:00:41 AM PST by LibertyWoman ( TRUMP 2020, because...(see bumper sticker for the ending))
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To: Mr. Rabbit

13 posted on 11/07/2020 12:03:53 AM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: kevao

Business Insider has been a leftist publication for years. Not to be trusted. Believed to be set up to challenge or smear the Wall Street Journal and IDB or IBD conservative business news publication.


14 posted on 11/07/2020 12:08:38 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: SunkenCiv

Regarding your second link in this post

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3902958/posts?page=4#4

it goes to a post on FR

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/3902841/posts?page=101#101

with numerous links.

Which one is the story about “sensing a Biden victory, Democrats in Washington DC and Hollywood begin calling for all Trump supporters to be arrested and burned to death”

That is the title of the second link here:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3902958/posts?page=4#4


15 posted on 11/07/2020 12:12:51 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

never heard of “MeWe” given Business insider reputation. I would say they’re tying to get more people over to their leftists friends new site.


16 posted on 11/07/2020 12:38:27 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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Looked up “MeWe” it’s a googleplay program. Why on earth would person that is being kicked off leftist sites go too google? My brain hurts thinking about the logic


17 posted on 11/07/2020 12:41:33 AM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Slyfox

I though it was Sucaturd.


18 posted on 11/07/2020 12:44:59 AM PST by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

I’ve never heard of MeWe either. I thought it was Parler. What are people using instead of FB and Twitter?


19 posted on 11/07/2020 12:48:10 AM PST by sbnsd
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To: SunkenCiv

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3902841/posts?page=1#1

Found the story with that title.


20 posted on 11/07/2020 12:52:27 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000)
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