From election night onwards, Twitter and Facebook have continued to label inaccurate election posts from Trump, his campaign staff, and others

Twitter, Facebook and YouTube remained on alert as the lack of a clear election result kept the online misinformation flowing.

New York Times 2020-11-05

Context & Ripple Effects

Two years after outside monitors had to prod Facebook through the 2018 midterms, the platforms entered election night 2020 with their own enforcement machinery running: Twitter applied sharing restrictions while Facebook attached warning labels to Trump's posts alleging election theft, a split approach captured in the platforms' divergent night-one responses.

The escalation continued as Facebook extended labeling to any candidate or 'other individual' declaring premature victory in a state or overall — and the article reports the labeling has persisted from election night onwards, making it a sustained policy rather than a one-night intervention.

First-order effects

Trump, his campaign staff, and other users posting inaccurate election claims now face visible labels on their content, with Twitter going further than Facebook by restricting sharing of the flagged tweets.

Second-order effects

The platforms' uneven rules create a moderation asymmetry: the same false claim can be throttled on Twitter but merely labeled on Facebook, giving campaigns an incentive to route claims toward the more permissive platform.

Third-order effects

The 2022 follow-up finding that labels did little to actually refute inaccurate claims by at least 26 midterm candidates suggests labeling alone becomes a standing fixture that platforms maintain without resolving the underlying spread — pushing the debate toward whether labels, sharing limits, or removal are the real enforcement standard.

The trend: Election misinformation is pushing platforms from passive hosting toward permanent, platform-specific labeling and sharing-restriction regimes whose effectiveness, not just existence, is becoming the contested question.

Discussion

@twittersupport @twittersupport on x
We may label Tweets, starting on election night, that make claims about election results before they're officially called. We'll be prioritizing the presidential election and other highly contested races where there may be significant issues with misleading information. https://t…
@ryanlizza Ryan Lizza on x
The President's Twitter feed currently has more warnings than a pack of cigarettes. https://twitter.com/...
@donie Donie O'Sullivan on x
There is a pro-Trump “Stop The Steal” group on Facebook alleging all kinds of baseless election fraud. A rabbithole of misinformation. The group is gaining about 1,000 new members EVERY 10 SECONDS at the moment.
@kevinroose Kevin Roose on x
All these months of handwringing over social networks and their rules about false claims of victory will feel pretty moot if TV networks just carry the same claims live on air with no context.
@kurtwagner8 Kurt Wagner on x
In President Trump's speech last night, he called the election a “fraud” & an “embarrassment.” He said: “Frankly, we did win this election.” Facebook labeled that video, saying “final results may be different from the initial vote counts.” Twitter has not labeled the video
@willoremus Will Oremus on x
Big day on Twitter for Congress's first QAnon adherent https://twitter.com/...
@mjenkins Mandy Jenkins on x
I feel like there's a discussion to be had about how, in the fight against election disinformation, Facebook and Google also sold out the very news providers that could help with that problem. ⬇️
@caseynewton Casey Newton on x
I have never seen @Twitter act so swiftly to label bad tweets or remove fake accounts as it has today. Cheers to @yoyoel, @kayvz and everyone there working on election integrity. 🇺🇸
@nilesgapol Niles Edward Francis on x
18 of Marjorie Taylor Greene's tweets today have been flagged for election misinformation.
@chrisinsilico @chrisinsilico on x
The Biden campaign was not only up against Trump, they had to fight through Facebook's algorithmic assault on truth and rampant spread of disinformation. If Biden wins, Facebook lobbyists will lovebomb Dems. But we can't forgive or forget what Facebook has done to US democracy.
@b_fung Brian Fung on x
Just did a quick count. 50% of Trump's tweets from the last 24 hours (original tweets, not counting RTs) have received a contextual label from Twitter.
@kantrowitz Alex Kantrowitz on x
Solid 24 hours for the tech platforms. They are not the story, and that's a win for them.
@carolecadwalla Carole Cadwalladr on x
Super great work as ever from Facebook. Can anyone spot any problem with this? https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
@rmac18 @rmac18 on x
On Election Day and today as results are tallied, Facebook Live featured partisan content from Steve Bannon, Trump attorney Jay Sekulow, and Charlie Kirk. These recommendations often placed their content above election coverage from outlets like ABC. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/…
@natijomartinez Natalie Martinez on x
According to Crowdtangle, the top three Facebook page posts in the past 12 hours are all from Trump. All three posts contain misinformation. Facebook did not label any of them as misinformation. In total, they've earned almost 2.5 million interactions. https://twitter.com/...
@amir Amir Efrati on x
Good look at internal Facebook employee deliberations about whether to moderate the live-streaming of conspiracy theories & @RT_com on its platform over the past day. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
@digiphile Alex Howard on x
It's almost like presidential disinformation is so toxic that it requires a public health warning. Maybe should warn elite political media that it's unethical to amplify it without inoculating people first. https://e-pluribusunum.org/... https://twitter.com/...
@joshconstine Josh Constine -SignalFire on x
My rankings of how social networks handled election misinformation (from best to worst) 1. Twitter - Swift, clear labels 2. Facebook - Vague labels, gave Trumps extra chances 3. YouTube - Refused to take down false info, sold Trump homepage ad takeover before Biden nominated
@rmac18 @rmac18 on x
Less than 24 hours before election day, Facebook Live recommended a vid called “LEFT PLANS COUP” as well as coverage from Russian state-controlled outlet RT. Facebook now says it implemented a policy on election day stopping recommendations of state media. https://www.buzzfeednew…
@markscott82 Mark Scott on x
Update: it's too early to say social media companies had a “good election.” Misinformation is on the rise again. Watch out for “news sites” being shared that are actually partisan operations — that's very 2020 election
@natijomartinez Natalie Martinez on x
For years Facebook's justification for choosing to not ban misinfo was that it could inoculate misinfo posts and reduce their spread. Their approach was always a terrible excuse to avoid moderating content, but today is another instance where it's shown to be a complete failure. …
@netchoice @netchoice on x
A step in the right direction from major social media! Tech companies are taking quick action in a relatively confusing time. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
@cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x
so I guess the upside to being a newly elected member of congress is that you can just go absolutely nuts on twitter. Marjorie Taylor Greene's twitter account is a masterclass in tweeting with impunity. unlike anything I've seen. 20 tweets just today? https://twitter.com/...
@willoremus Will Oremus on x
Not sure anyone is fully prepared for what consistent enforcement of political misinfo policies by Twitter would look like in the long run but this is a pretty amusing preview https://twitter.com/...
@karaswisher Kara Swisher on x
Exactly what @kevinroose said. This is a systemic failure due to a poor information diet. https://twitter.com/...
@sub8u Subrahmanyam Kvj on x
Amusing how everyone wants Facebook, Twitter, Instagram to interject in the feed, reduce distribution, limit propagation, etc etc...but it is fine for TV networks to carry on everything uncensored, and keep re-airing it 🤷‍♂️🤷 ‍♂️🤷‍ ♂️ https://twitter.com/...
@mmasnick Mike Masnick on x
Looks like social media is handling this shit a hell of a lot better than TV news... https://twitter.com/...
@reckless Nilay Patel on x
The major networks did a worse job of preparing people throughout the night for the long-understood election dynamic playing out today than Twitter and Facebook
@kurtwagner8 Kurt Wagner on x
Both companies have policies against candidates prematurely claiming victory. Both companies have policies against undermining election results by suggesting they are fraudulent or rigged. Not sure why Twitter hasn't labeled this video. It has 10M views so far.
@rmac18 @rmac18 on x
It took more than 25 minutes for Facebook to act with a label on the most watched account in the world. This is a company that's touted its election preparedness for months. How many people saw that post without the label?
@megancgraham Meg Graham on x
YouTube says it won't remove a video called “Trump Won,” which claims Dems are committing voter fraud against Republican ballots (despite admitting the video undermines confidence in elections). But it did discontinue ads on the video. via @jenn_elias: https://www.cnbc.com/...
@youtubeinsider @youtubeinsider on x
@megancgraham @jenn_elias 2. Our policies prohibit content like false claims that could materially discourage voting. This video doesn't rise to that level, but we have a higher bar for monetization & removed the ad, bc it has demonstrably false content that undermines trust in t…
@kevinroose Kevin Roose on x
Meanwhile on YouTube, Steven Crowder got 3.5 million views on a 5-hour livestream in which he promoted Sharpiegate and a bunch of other debunked voter fraud claims. https://twitter.com/...
@verambergen Vera Bergengruen on x
YouTube: this video has “demonstrably false content that undermines trust in the democratic process.” Also YouTube: This video “doesn't rise” to the level of removal https://twitter.com/...
@wokyleeks @wokyleeks on x
I see you've disabled adverts on the video, but have you stopped recommending it to users? Because that's the important part. @thespybrief https://twitter.com/...
@drewharwell Drew Harwell on x
Appreciate YouTube defending video creators' right to share demonstrably false content that undermines trust in the democratic process. What would the internet be without it? https://twitter.com/...
@kevinroose Kevin Roose on x
Not sure taking away $4.07 or whatever OAN would have made from running ads on this is a sufficient deterrent. https://twitter.com/...
@marietjeschaake Marietje Schaake on x
Google's non enforcement and non policies and then selling it's frontage are an absolute mess >> YouTube refuses to remove video that appears to violate its policies ↘️ https://www.cnbc.com/...
@meganclasen Megan Clasen on x
When Google announced their ad blackout I asked if they'd pull organic content from YouTube if Trump falsely declared victory. They said no. This is why these ad blackouts on Facebook and Google don't help - sources that seem credible to voters can still spread false info. https:…
@gaywonk Carlos Maza on x
On YouTube, conspiracy theories and extremism aren't a bug. They're the product. https://twitter.com/...
@cwarzel Charlie Warzel on x
at this point it might be more honest for them to say they're not up to the task or disinterested in trying to stop this stuff https://twitter.com/...
@lindsaypgorman Lindsay P. Gorman on x
I fail to see how a tiny label that says “results may not be final” underneath is remotely useful in stopping election disinfo that lodges blatantly false claims. https://twitter.com/...
@slpng_giants @slpng_giants on x
Pathetic, @TeamYouTube. https://twitter.com/...
@caseynewton Casey Newton on x
🥴 https://twitter.com/...
@jenn_elias Jennifer Elias on x
Update: YouTube has sent us a fresh explanation for why it won't remove the video: its election policy was meant for interference before votes are cast, as opposed to after. “The content of this video doesn't rise to that level, so it wasn't removed.” https://www.cnbc.com/...
@caseynewton Casey Newton on x
YouTube execs spent the past week tweeting about all their election preparations and how all their teams were in place, and this is the main thing we will remember about their Election Day response https://twitter.com/...
@yoda Drew Olanoff on x
Pretty sure that @SusanWojcicki needs to be replaced. https://twitter.com/...
@loudmouthjulia Julia Alexander on x
The thing about this specific example: YouTube has a policy stating “using title, thumbnails, description, tags to trick users into believing the content is something it is not” is against its deceptive practice policies, so this move doesn't make sense. https://www.cnbc.com/...
@fbnewsroom @fbnewsroom on x
We are continuing to label all posts from both presidential candidates making it clear that votes are still being counted and a winner has not been projected. We are also applying these labels to other individuals who declare premature victory in individual states or overall. htt…
@mosseri @mosseri on x
It's critical that people have accurate information about elections results. To that end we're expanding our premature declaration of victory labels to apply to people beyond the presidential candidates. We'll apply these at state-level and overall. https://twitter.com/...
@fboversight @fboversight on x
*THIS IS FACTUALLY INCORRECT* Trump claims victory in Pennsylvania on @Facebook before any trusted source has called the election in that state. This tiny label from Facebook is actively amplifying the spread of this disinfo and complicit in a premature declaration of victory. ht…
@newley Newley Purnell on x
New: Facebook clarifies its rules, says won't flag @realDonaldTrump or any other individual who declares victory for candidate in battleground states before votes are counted, @JeffHorwitz @dseetharaman report: https://www.wsj.com/...
@tayhatmaker Taylor Hatmaker on x
this wording is odd... maybe reading it wrong but implying Biden's campaign also declared that he won the election or key remaining states (like Trump campaign's false victory declaration in PA) is false https://twitter.com/...
@evelyndouek Evelyn Douek on x
Facebook flip-flops on whether it will apply its labels to claims about individual states (cf https://www.wsj.com/...). The decision to draw that line in the sand less than 15 hours ago is baffling. https://twitter.com/...
@jamestitcomb James Titcomb on x
Facebook labelling every post from Trump and Biden means it conveniently no longer has to make tough calls on what posts break its rules https://twitter.com/...
@davidakaye David Kaye on x
this whole disinfo at state level (fb says ok) versus national (ixnay) makes zero sense. https://twitter.com/...
@marietjeschaake Marietje Schaake on x
Facebook is updating its policy as we speak... (not like there weren't tons of warnings about exactly this type of post-election disinformation) ↘️ https://twitter.com/...
@taylor_owen Taylor Owen on x
That these decisions are being made on the fly, after months of unambiguous clarity that this was precisely trump's strategy, is just bizarre https://twitter.com/...
@marietjeschaake Marietje Schaake on x
Last inning game change ↘️ https://twitter.com/...
@tonyajoriley Tonya Riley on x
This seems 24 hours too late but: https://twitter.com/...
@mshannahmurphy Hannah Murphy on x
@CTwineGirl @JesseLehrich Initially FB were only going to label premature claims of victory from election candidates That's been expanded to include “individuals” that fit a largely unspecified criteria (Facebook said virality is one factor but hasn't shared more details) eg - ht…
@b_fung Brian Fung on x
I'm surprised this wasn't a thing from the start. https://twitter.com/...
@lindsaypgorman Lindsay P. Gorman on x
Frankly, this was an easily anticipated issue that should not have taken until the day after election day to decide on. https://twitter.com/...
@karissabe Karissa Bell on x
Okay seems to be confirmed, Facebook “expanding” its rules to apply at state level after saying last night this would not be the case. Not confusing at all. https://twitter.com/...
@dseetharaman Deepa Seetharaman on x
New: Facebook clarified its rule on premature declarations of electoral victory tonight. Candidates still can't claim they won the overall election, but $FB won't take action if either side says they won a specific state. https://www.wsj.com/...
@rmac18 @rmac18 on x
Despite Facebook's preparations, Facebook Live spread a conspiracy theory, Russian state-controlled media, and hyperpartisan content to thousands of people before, during, and after Election Day. Internally, some employees warned this would happen. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ .…
@brooklynmarie Brooke Binkowski on x
This is getting organized on established @Facebook groups in contested states, I've been watching it develop. Once again, disinformation spread on that platform is being used to disrupt the democratic process, right this second. https://twitter.com/...
@katienotopoulos Katie Notopoulos on x
The best detail in this story is that while Facebook had its election disclaimer widget on streaming live videos on its app and website, there were no disclaimers on the Watch section for Portal https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ...
@markruffalo Mark Ruffalo on x
Let's get FaceBook and Zuckerberg to commit to making sure they don't spread any misinformation about who is winning in the final states where votes are being counted. https://twitter.com/...
@fbnewsroom @fbnewsroom on x
Once President Trump began making premature claims of victory, we started running notifications on Facebook and Instagram that votes are still being counted and a winner is not projected. We're also automatically applying labels to both candidates' posts with this information. ht…
@oneunderscore__ Ben Collins on x
NEW: Facebook spokesperson just now: “Once President Trump began making premature claims of victory, we started running top-of-feed notifications on Facebook and Instagram so that everyone knows votes are still being counted and the winner has not been projected.” https://twitter…
@instagramcomms @instagramcomms on x
@kelseymsutton Thanks for raising! While we turned off the “Tomorrow is Election Day” notice last night, it was cached for a small group of people if their app hadn't been restarted. It's resolving itself as people restart. Today, people will get “It's the Last Day to Vote” at th…
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
top of the Facebook and Instagram apps right now https://twitter.com/...
@matthewstoller Matt Stoller on x
Daddy Zuckerberg is here to make sure the bad people get a spanking. https://twitter.com/...
@imraansiddiqi Imraan Siddiqi on x
“Now please excuse us while we help organize white supremacist meetups nationwide.” https://twitter.com/...
@kelseymsutton Kelsey Sutton on x
lmao this is at the top of my refreshed instagram feed this AM https://twitter.com/...
@issielapowsky Issie Lapowsky on x
Some Instagram users are still seeing messages at the top of their feeds telling them Election Day is *tomorrow.* Instagram says it's a caching issue and people have to restart their apps. Seems like something that could have been anticipated. https://www.protocol.com/...
@realdonaldtrump Donald J. Trump on x
We are up BIG, but they are trying to STEAL the Election. We will never let them do it. Votes cannot be cast after the Polls are closed!
@realdonaldtrump Donald J. Trump on x
How come every time they count Mail-In ballot dumps they are so devastating in their percentage and power of destruction?
@realdonaldtrump Donald J. Trump on x
Last night I was leading, often solidly, in many key States, in almost all instances Democrat run & controlled. Then, one by one, they started to magically disappear as surprise ballot dumps were counted. VERY STRANGE, and the “pollsters” got it completely & historically wrong!
@2020partnership Election Integrity Partnership on x
3/5 Around 40 min later, Twitter took action by hiding the tweet behind an informational label and preventing it from being retweeted. The graph below shows the rate of retweets and quote tweets, which were dramatically reduced after Twitter took action https://faculty.washington…
@rmac18 @rmac18 on x
According to a Twitter spox, the tweet from Eric Trump and this one from the White House press secretary will receive labels for sharing misinformation about election results. https://twitter.com/...
@rmac18 @rmac18 on x
McEnany also shared the same statement on Facebook. Per @JeffHorwitz's reporting, political officials can share misinformation about declaring victory in individual states, but are prohibited from doing so about overall race. I have asked Facebook anyways. https://twitter.com/...
@brianstelter Brian Stelter on x
Twitter's warning atop this @FDRLST article baselessly claiming that Dems “are trying to steal the election” marks the first time that a US media outlet's main account has been tagged with an election results label. https://twitter.com/...
@nickbilton Nick Bilton on x
Twitter deserves major credit for hiding this false and dangerous tweet, and doing it so quickly. Facebook, on the other hand, on e again refuses to do its civic duty. https://twitter.com/...
@kurtwagner8 Kurt Wagner on x
A Twitter spokesman said, “Recordings or clips of the press conference on their own are not a violation of our policies.” Pointed out that many press outlets carried the speech and shared clips to Twitter. The company would have had to label all of them. https://twitter.com/...
@kimmaicutler Kim-Mai Cutler on x
FFS, do your job @nick_clegg https://twitter.com/...
@pranesh Pranesh Prakash on x
Perhaps it might not be best to trust #Twitter to make all the right calls about reliable elections news. They've flagged an NYT reporter's coverage of a bureaucratic hiccup (printer ink!) during the US elections as “disputed” and says it “may be misleading”. https://twitter.com/…
@kevinroose Kevin Roose on x
Twitter throttling Trump's STEAL tweet on election night will go down as a big decision in the company's history. So will whatever Facebook decides to do — or not do — about that claim, and others like it.
@daithaigilbert David Gilbert on x
Twitter is scrambling to keep up with the flood of disinformation from the Trump team https://twitter.com/...
@katestarbird Kate Starbird on x
A graph showing how Twitter's action to reduce the spread (by removing the ability to RT) of @realDonaldTrump's misleading tweet tonight about election integrity (reacting to Supreme Court decisions about PA) affected the tweet's spread: https://twitter.com/...
@jonathanturley Jonathan Turley on x
...The actions by Twitter and Facebook on Election Day were reprehensible and wrong. What is so disturbing is that so many Democrats have come enablers of such corporate speech controls by the giant tech companies.
@nytimes @nytimes on x
Twitter clamped down on President Trump's false statement about election results in about five minutes early Wednesday morning, but that didn't stop more than 750 other Twitter accounts from trying to amplify his claims with the exact same message. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@andymstone Andy Stone on x
@donie @kayleighmcenany @EricTrump same here: https://www.facebook.com/...
@donie Donie O'Sullivan on x
Do Facebook labels make it that “clear”? Would it be easy to miss these labels? Compared to some of the Twitter labels that completely cover some tweets? https://twitter.com/...
@evansss Evan Rosenfeld on x
Republican Twitter right now https://twitter.com/...
@jason_kint Jason Kint on x
Wow. Joel Kaplan must have gone to bed early tonight. So brave of Facebook to actually refer to the President by name. https://twitter.com/...
@tayhatmaker Taylor Hatmaker on x
this is a scenario social media cos anticipated and they're doing what we expected them to do. still, strange to see Facebook call out Trump's actions specifically in light of... four years of mostly never doing that https://twitter.com/...
@viacristiano Cristiano Lima on x
Just in: Twitter hits another high-profile Dem, CAP president @neeratanden, with a warning label for prematurely claiming Biden “is already at 270” (He's not.) https://twitter.com/...
@2020partnership Election Integrity Partnership on x
2/5 As we've written about previously, these statements are now predictable and connect to broader efforts to spread false narratives about mail-in voting and the legitimacy of election results: https://www.eipartnership.net/ ...
@classiclib3ral Wild Geerters on x
This twitter function really improving the quality of Tim's tweets https://twitter.com/...
@rmac18 @rmac18 on x
The platforms weren't the story on election night in 2016. Their mishaps were uncovered later. https://twitter.com/...
@reckless Nilay Patel on x
Reminder that adding labels and context to tweets is not “censorship” and the President of the United States has an infinite number of ways to communicate that aren't one tiny social media platform
@rmac18 @rmac18 on x
1) a quote tweet with disputed info 2) a tweet that's judged to be ok for now 3) a tweet with disputed info incredible range https://twitter.com/...
@alexhern Alex Hern on x
don't really understand how it takes twitter 12 minutes and counting to slap a label on Trump's tweet implying the election was stolen
@markdistef Mark Di Stefano on x
Trump's latest tweet calling results into question passed *more than 100,000 RTs in half an hour* before being locked by Twitter. https://twitter.com/...
@rmac18 @rmac18 on x
A Twitter spokesperson said the company is reviewing Trump's latest tweet about “surprise ballot dumps”. It's been up for 15 mins. https://twitter.com/...
@carnage4life Dare Obasanjo on x
62 million people voted for Trump in 2016 and its trending to look like ten million more people voted for him this year. This is more votes than Obama got in 2008 which is the current record. The fact our Twitter bubble can't escape is many Americans want four more years of this …
@donie Donie O'Sullivan on x
Unusual to see Facebook call Trump out by name. Though that's hardly the most unusual thing about tonight. https://twitter.com/...
@jacknicas Jack Nicas on x
New data shows that YouTube has cut its recommendations of fringe channels, helping reduce its spread of disinformation. The changes have also had a knock-on effect: Fox News is now YouTube's most recommended channel alongside election-related videos. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@reckless Nilay Patel on x
To be utterly transparent, a big debate in our editors' meeting today was whether to prewrite this post, because this situation was so obviously coming. (We did not, because we didn't want to make any assumptions about the facts.) https://www.theverge.com/...
@rmac18 @rmac18 on x
FWIW, Twitter did not label this tweet in which Trump declared a “big WIN!” https://twitter.com/...
@sarahfrier Sarah Frier on x
Better label now from Facebook: https://twitter.com/...
@radiofreetom Tom Nichols on x
People need to stop blaming Facebook for everything. The reason Facebook has so much power is because Americans are such a bunch of zombies who will spend hours on Facebook but won't spend 30 minutes reading a newspaper. https://twitter.com/...
@berinszoka @berinszoka on x
Yet further proof that social media, far from being biased against conservatives, actually favor them The real question: is that because tech companies, under relentless GOP attacks, have actively skewed content to favor the GOP? That'd be actual censorship by intimidation https:…
@thegrugq Thaddeus E. Grugq on x
The 2020 election was awash in disinformation. It was practically uncontested. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were heavily used to spread disinformation. It was domestic, aimed at Latinos, and *crucially* it was in Spanish.
@edzitron Ed Dead Redemption on x
[contorting body into unearthly shape to avoid assigning an iota of blame to the Democratic Party's terrible performance with Latinx voters] https://twitter.com/...
@reaganbattalion Reagan Battalion on x
Here we go. The media misinformation machine turning to explain that the only way Latinos voted Republican is because of misinformation. Hacks and frauds. https://twitter.com/...
@hshaban Hamza Shaban on x
NYT: The onslaught of propaganda targeting Spanish speakers in South Florida continued Wednesday, where immigrant communities who have fled authoritarian regimes are receptive to messaging critical of socialism, through Facebook, YouTube and the radio https://www.nytimes.com/...
@recognizeprop @recognizeprop on x
@jennymedina @AsteadWesley @PatriciaMazzei @nicoleperlroth A HUGE source of this targeting was WhatsApp. Barely traceable.
@patriciamazzei Patricia Mazzei on x
The reach of the disinformation is vast. In just 24 hours, Spanish-language disinformation was generating traffic that eclipsed even the interference campaign by the Kremlin-backed Russian Internet Research Agency four years ago. https://www.nytimes.com/...
@jennymedina Jennifer Medina on x
They breathed a sigh of relief as Election Day passed relatively unscathed... Yet 24 hours later, it appeared Facebook & Twitter might have overlooked the deluge of disinformation targeting Spanish-speaking Americans. via @PatriciaMazzei & @nicoleperlroth https://www.nytimes.com/…
@thegrugq Thaddeus E. Grugq on x
Beware of any claims about how “Latinos” were flooded by disinfo and went for Trump. Reality is far more nuanced and complex. - Cubans in Miami-Dade went hard right -> Trump - Lots of disinfo - Left wing Latino organisers in AR + NM worked hard - Maybe delivered AR + NM

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