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 Facebook Inc. shares rose 1% Wednesday after it announced the digital takedown of pages and accounts linked to President Trump's longtime adviser Roger Stone and Proud Boys, a far-right group Facebook has banned under its hate policies. The social-networking giant also said it removed accounts tied to employees of the family of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and two other networks connected to domestic political operations in Ecuador and Ukraine. The material linked to Stone, who is scheduled to report to jail next week for witness tampering and lying to Congress, included 54 Facebook accounts and 50 pages. The pages included hacked materials released by Wikileaks ahead of the 2016 presidential election. Facebook removed the content of the four groups as it faces withering pressure from civil rights advocates and hundreds of advertisers for hateful and divisive messages on its platform.
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