Social-Media
Facebook will announce the outcome of the presidential elections via Facebook and Instagram updates.
Facebook plans to place the name of the winner of the US presidential election at the top of Facebook and Instagram after it has been predicted by the majority of media outlets, the organization reports. The organization will also mark presidential candidates with a link to their voter information center, according to Facebook spokesperson Tom Reynolds.
The company plans to display the name of the nominee in updates at the top of Facebook and Instagram that say 'The Presidential Winner Has Been Projected— is the predicted winner of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election, Reynolds explained in an email to The Verge.
Facebook would focus on the majority view of Reuters as well as the independent decision-making desks of major media outlets, including ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, NBC News, CNN, and The Associated Press, to decide whether a presidential winner is predicted, says Reynolds.
Facebook saw more false statements about the referendum as elections in some main states began on Thursday, Reynolds said, noting that all of the claims had poor engagement on its website. We are taking additional interim measures, as we mentioned earlier, to prevent this disinformation from affecting more users, he said, including deleting content that his programs deem to be propaganda, including debunked arguments regarding voting. It also restricts the dissemination of live videos on Facebook linked to the election.
Facebook has previously announced several steps it will take until 3 November to reduce the dissemination of disinformation on its sites. It placed an indefinite ban on US-based political advertising as of Tuesday, and froze pre-election political ad purchases, expressly barring ads that unfairly declared victory. On Thursday, Facebook killed a group of 300,000 users called Stop the Loot over worrying demands for abuse from supporters of the group and blocked a number of hashtags linked to false allegations of electoral fraud.
