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The highest level of alert on Facebook and Twitter
The head-to-head race for the White House triggered the highest level of alert among online networks: Twitter and Facebook not only flagged a message from US President Donald Trump as “misleading” on election night, experts found others. Massive attempts to mislead voters.
In order to curb the spread of false information, as in the 2016 presidential elections, major platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube had already taken action against inciting, manipulative and misleading messages before the elections.
During the election, the online networks were busy – if you Googled the key states that would decide the election, you would get a prominent YouTube channel showing a fake live feed of the election results. Although YouTube removed the video after a while, “thousands of people may have been fooled,” said the Election Integrity Partnership research group.
