Facebook will announce presidential election result in Facebook and Instagram notifications

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Facebook is seeing an invade in worrying affectibility implicitly the US election, equal to letters from The New York Times and BuzzFeed News. Equal to BuzzFeed News, which visual a column on Facebook's internal bulletin board, the company has been tracking a acceleration in "violence and incitement trends" associated with hashtags and keywords.

Facebook did not thank for commentary approximately a prepatent acceleration in the organization of agitated affectibility on its podium by the time of publication, however Facebook stockbroker Liz Down-to-earth told BuzzFeed Reading that the company is "staying vigilant in hearing content that could incite welsh during this time of high-pitched uncertainty." In a statement given to The Verge and others, Facebook said that the company is seeing a acceleration in misinformation approximately the election. "As vote counting continues, we are seeing increasingly letters of inaccurate claims approximately the election," a Facebook stockbroker said in a statement to The Verge. "While plenteous of these claims hypothesize low gutiness on our platform, we are taking plus tentative steps, which we've previously discussed, to reunite this content from wide-extending increasingly people.

The company had reportedly planned to deal with the spread of viral misinformation approximately the ballot with trapping designed for "at-risk" countries such as Sri Lanka and Myanmar. Facebook took down a incorporating with increasingly than 300,000 members so-called "Stop the Steal" that was organizing rallies to events ballot results beforehand on Thursday.

Facebook plans to institute "demotions for content on Facebook and Instagram that our systems prognosticate may be misinformation, including debunked claims approximately voting," the stockbroker said. "We are also limiting the employers of Live videos that may relate to the ballot on Facebook." The company will also make it harder to share content as unhesitatingly as today, according to The New York Times. That means, for example, Facebook could crave an spear-carrier clink when sharing content.

A lot of that misinformation is coming hereupon from President Donald Trump. In one post, Trump personal that any vote coming in hind ballot day can't be counted; Facebook applied a characterization to that column governing readers to the company's voting intercommunication center. In another, he embraced that ballot presidency stop counting votes, which Facebook also labeled. It's cryptic if Facebook has limited the realization of those posts or others that hypothesize received labels.

Like Facebook, Warble has taken action on a ordinal of Trump's tweets since the election, often placing tweets exactly fundament a characterization and preventing replies or retweets of those tweets. (Quote tweets of the labeled tweets are still allowed, however.)

Major reading organizations hypothesize not yet so-called a champ in the presidential election. Results are still vogue from Arizona, Alaska, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, where votes endure to be counted.

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