efforts around the November election. Twitter
said it is working on expanding its policies to
address “new and unique challenges” related to
this year’s elections, including misinformation
around mail-in voting.
Looking ahead to November, Facebook said it is
“actively speaking with election officials about
the potential of misinformation around election
results as an emerging threat.”
The company did not give details on the
potential threats, but said that a prolonged
ballot process where results are not immediately
clear “has the potential to be exploited in order
to sow distrust in the election outcome.”
“One way we plan to fight this is by using the
Voting Information Center and the US Elections
digest in Facebook News to make sure people
have easy access to the latest, authoritative
information and news on and after Election
Night,” Naomi Gleit, vice president of product
management and social impact, wrote in
a blog post.