How social media platforms plan to curb fake news about the US election

If there’s one certainty about the outcome of the US presidential election, it’s that social media feeds will roil with a head-spinning surge of conflicting information.

The country faces the prospect of days or weeks of vote counting, during which the final result will be uncertain. The early returns on election night could look entirely different from the final vote count, thanks to a deluge of mail-in ballots that take much longer to tabulate than in-person votes. In the meantime, unscrupulous groups may stoke confusion by claiming victory before all the votes are counted.

As a result, a great deal of the responsibility for maintaining Americans’ faith in their elections has fallen to the very companies blamed with enabling bad actors to undermine the integrity of the vote in 2016. This time around, social platforms, messaging apps, search engines, and news aggregators are hoping they can do better by laying careful plans to slow the spread of misinformation. Here are all of their plans.

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