As Americans head to the polls, social media companies are in the spotlight
Social media companies are under intense pressure to squash the spread of disinformation on their platforms during the 2024 elections
With Americans heading to the polls on Election Day, social media companies like Meta, TikTok, X and YouTube are under intense pressure to handle what's expected to be a flood of disinformation, heightened by the rise of artificial intelligence.
no wonder Facebook has to put in all those restrictions... There are people spreading info about the rates, who will win why some groups will votes for some groups. I barely know who to trust right now with these information.
I can tell you that we cannot trust the mainstream US media. They are completely in the bag, not only about the election but everything.
It's been a huge issue since the 2016 presidential election cycle, when foreign adversaries abused social platforms in an effort to sway the outcome. Most notably, Russian operatives flooded Facebook with posts promoting false information about Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Meta says it's invested more than $20 billion around safety and security for global elections since 2016, and has more recently deprioritized political content on Instagram and Threads. The company has also been working with fact-checkers, amplifying verified voting resources and labeling AI-generated content ahead of Election Day.
There's only so much the companies can do. Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, told reporters in an October briefing that foreign actors from Russia, Iran and China have managed to launch viral disinformation campaigns.
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