As a mob stormed up the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, shouting “Stop the steal!” and brandishing posters that referenced QAnon conspiracy theories, much of the world watched in dumbstruck shock. In few places was the sense of horror greater than inside the offices of Facebook. 

For weeks before Jan. 6, engineers, disinformation experts, and executives within the company were fighting a losing battle to contain the spread of misinformation from groups making false claims about election fraud. They had shut down the main Stop the Steal Facebook account back in November, and in the days leading up to Jan. 6, Facebook says, the team banned hundreds of militarized right-wing groups and took down tens of thousands of QAnon pages. But it failed to take action against others who continued to parrot the same messages. One of Facebook’s biggest problems: Perhaps the most influential account spreading false narratives belonged to the sitting President of the United States, Donald Trump. Now it faced a crisis that could deal an existential blow to the company’s already battered reputation.

That evening, just before 7 p.m. East Coast time—with law enforcement restoring order at the Capitol, and with Trump having tweeted that his supporters should “Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!”—CEO Mark Zuckerberg consulted with key members of his brain trust. On the call were Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook’s chief operating officer; Joel Kaplan, its vice president for U.S. public policy; and Nick Clegg, the former British deputy prime minister who served as vice president for global affairs, and a relative newcomer, in just his third year at Facebook. 

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