Social media companies slow to crack down on false narratives
by Sam Dean and Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times
Nov 06, 2020
3 minutes
Efforts by President Donald Trump and his supporters to sow doubt in the integrity of election results continue to pose challenges for Facebook and other social media companies, as the vote-counting process remains underway.
Twitter has worked to restrict tweets from the president that spread false narratives undermining the election, flagging many of his posts as potentially misleading, but baseless claims of election fraud have continued to percolate across the platform at speed.
On Facebook, Trump's supporters are picking up the president's message and running with it. A Facebook group called
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