Facebook Is a ‘Super-Spreader’ of Election Misinformation

LESS THAN A WEEK AHEAD OF THE U.S. presidential election, misinformation relating to voting and election security was still flourishing on Facebook, despite the platform’s pledge to curb such content, a News-Guard investigation found.

NewsGuard identified 40 Face-book pages that are “super-spreaders” of election-related misinformation, meaning that they have shared false content about voting or the electoral process to their audiences of at least 100,000 follow ers. Only three of the 53 posts we identified on these pages—which together