Efforts to combat disinformation in retreat as voters head to the polls

During the chaos after the 2020 election, tech companies erected unprecedented defenses to prevent misinformation from spreading on their platforms. Twitter’s Trust and Safety team added fact-checking labels to false claims about the election and blocked some of then-President Donald Trump’s posts about vote fraud from spreading. Facebook peppered election posts with links to its voter information center, which was filled with reliable information about the legitimacy of mail-in ballots and voting in general.

Several weeks after the race was called, YouTube began removing videos that made claims of widespread election fraud..