Major tech giants finally show how they handle political content on platforms
Social-media companies made big moves to stop false info spread during last election period. Tech platforms added fact-checking tools and info-centers to handle political content
Back in 2020s election period social-media giants took never-before-seen steps to handle wrong info on their platforms
The Twitter Trust & Safety group set-up special fact checking system: they put warning notes on wrong election claims and stopped some posts from Donald Trump about vote cheating from getting bigger reach (which was pretty new for that time)
Facebook made its own way to deal with this stuff: they added special links near election-related posts that sent users to their new voter info-center – a place full of real facts about mail voting and other election stuff; their center had lots of good info about how voting works
Several weeks after everyone knew who won YouTube finally did its thing – they started taking down videos that said there was big election fraud happening (which was kinda late compared to what other platforms did)
The way these tech-platforms handled things showed how social media companies can work together to stop bad info from spreading around – even if they dont always agree on how to do it
