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    How Facebook and the White House let the Boogaloo movement grow

    Facebook on Tuesday removed extremist ‘boogaloo’ groups, but experts say the move is ‘too little, too late’
    by Lois Beckett Jul 01, 2020 4 minutes
    Armed protesters provide security for a protest demanding reopening in Lansing, Michigan, on 30 April. Members of the ‘boogaloo’ movement wear Hawaiian shirts paired with body armor and a military-style rifle. Photograph: Jeff Kowalsky/AFP/Getty Images

    For months, in private and public Facebook groups, young American men have discussed killing federal agents and how to prepare for a coming civil war.

    They have shared carefully posed photographs of their guns and body armor and posted tributes to people they see as martyrs to government oppression.

    This anti-government “boogaloo” rhetoric has already been publicly linked to at least least 15 arrests and five deaths, including the murder of a federal security guard and a sheriff’s deputy in California, according to media reports and analysts who track extremists.

    Facebook, the primary social media platform for boogaloo discussions, that it was banning a network of violent “boogaloo” groups, and designating them as a dangerous organization similar to

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