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Leaked document: Facebook admits Capitol riot ‘incited’ in its platform

‘Company admitted it was unprepared to deal with ‘coordinated authentic harm”

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has denied to Congress that his platform had any role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, instead blaming President Trump, who urged his supporters to protest “peacefully.”

But now, DailyMail.com reports, the social media giant admitted in an internal document it didn’t do all that it could have done to stop the flow of information ahead of the event.

The report cited a “leaked internal report” called “Stop the Steal and Patriot Party: The Growth and Mitigation of an Adversarial Harmful Movement.”

Facebook admitted “election delegitimizing movements … grew, spread conspiracy, and helped incite the Capitol insurrection” on its platform.

The memo conflicts with Zuckerberg’s claim to Congress that Facebook was “inhospitable to those who might do harm.”

DailyMail.com said the “damning confession” came in a leaked internal report created by an internal task force that was obtained by Buzzfeed.

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