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US Presidential Election Day is approaching and not many Americans will know the outcome on Election Day night.
Since the number of ballots mailed out exceeds the previous figure, the voting process will inevitably take longer. It may take several days, or even weeks, from the end of the vote until it is complete.
This period of uncertainty has caused many people to worry about social unrest and unrest. Both sides can claim to have won the presidential election and fake news can flood.
Anger and hate speech on social media, fake news can stoke the fire and fuel tensions.
Are there countermeasures for the big tech companies in charge of the main social networks?
The most effective final solution is to temporarily shut down their respective social networks, but this is also the last thing that tech companies want to happen.
Twitter stated that once election day is over, no candidate will be able to declare victory on Twitter before the official announcement of the election results.
Twitter will not allow candidates to post or re-post any content that encourages interference with the electoral process. If found, Twitter will direct users to accurate and immediate sources of information about the status of the ticketing.
In this way, it appears that Twitter will not remove suspicious tweets, not even ban or block tweets, but will mark tweets on tags.
More importantly, Twitter has reserved a space for itself. If things get out of hand, Twitter still has ways to take more action.
Facebook’s vice president of communications and global affairs, Nick Clegg, told the media that Facebook is ready to take emergency measures in extreme cases, but Facebook has not stated what the so-called emergency measures refer to.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Facebook’s plan may include changing the method of calculating news sources and blocking popular posts that spread violence and fake news.
Facebook can also temporarily disable certain keyword tags related to incorrect election result posts, lowering the threshold for deleting posts.
These practices have been implemented by Facebook in other places before, such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar.
In addition to the possible measures mentioned above, Facebook has annotated the wrong message about voting with tags, and Facebook has also cooperated with Reuters to provide correct information on the election results after the vote.
Reddit, which is very popular in the United States, is willing to take stricter measures than Twitter and Facebook. Any news that tries to deceive or distort the electoral results will be eliminated.
Reddit also launched a special page, all the news about the elections will be classified on this special page and it will encourage users to check and check the news about the election results.
Experts familiar with electoral matters will be available to answer any questions about the possible situation after the election and voting.
Google and the Associated Press cooperate to provide news on the election results. If you are looking for news on the election results after voting is over, Google search will take users to the Associated Press for updates.
Google also said that after voting day, it will suspend announcements about the US presidential elections, candidates or election results to avoid misunderstandings after the vote.
YouTube said it would not allow “misleading information about the vote or promote content that interferes with the democratic process.”
If someone falsely claims that there is fraud in the ballots sent by mail in an attempt to affect the results of the general election, YouTube will also remove it.
Compared to Twitter and Facebook, YouTube’s approach is stricter.
Snapchat is slightly different from the social media companies mentioned above. Snapchat does not have dynamic news and error messages are less likely to spread across the platform.
However, Snapchat reminded its “star users” not to magnify the wrong message about the elections.
Snapchat also stated that they have a special task force within them to “protect our platform from any abuse.”
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TikTok said that in cooperation with independent fact-checkers during the election period, misinformation related to the presidential election and voting will be removed.
TikTok has also added the election error information option in the notification mechanism of the mobile phone program so that users can report suspicious content.
TikTok said it will continue to support the user community and maintain the integrity of the platform.
Simply put, all social media platforms take a very serious approach to the situation after the election and voting, in the next few days we will know if these measures are sufficient to deal with any situation that may occur.
