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Others posted about violence. A member of the Facebook group wrote on Wednesday: “This is going to take more than talk to fix.” Below that post, another member responded with explosion emojis.
On Thursday morning, the growth of the Facebook group Stop the Steal soared even further, according to data from CrowdTangle, a social media analytics tool owned by Facebook.
That’s when right-wing figures like Jack Posobiec, a pro-Trump activist, and Amy Kremer, Kremer’s mother and founder of a group called Women for Trump, began posting about the Facebook group on Twitter. Ali Alexander, a former political operative named Ali Akbar, also tweeted about the Stop the Steal movement dozens of times to his 140,000 Twitter followers.
His messages, which were shared thousands of times, were a rallying cry for people to join the Stop the Steal Facebook group and take action in local protests against voter fraud.
“In just its first few hours, more than 100,000 people joined the Facebook group Women for America First, Stop the Steal,” Posobiec wrote. In the comments below her post, many people applauded the popularity of the Facebook group.
The tweets helped send more people to Stop the Steal. Interactions with the Facebook group soared to 36 posts per minute Thursday morning, compared to about one post per minute, according to data from CrowdTangle.
Posobiec, Alexander and Amy Kremer did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
On Facebook, Facebook moderators notified executives about the group when they began flagging posts for possible calls for violence and protests to disrupt voting. The company also received calls from journalists about the group and its explosive growth. By midmorning, executives were discussing whether they should remove Stop the Steal, said an employee involved in the discussions who was not authorized to speak publicly.
