Election experts reported the spread of new falsehoods across Twitter and other social media services on Tuesday as Americans voted in midterm elections, four days after Twitter Inc fired half its staff and new owner Elon Musk tweeted a recommendation ...
The non-partisan watchdog group Common Cause, which monitors social media for voter suppression efforts, said that Twitter took no action on high-profile posts that the organisation flagged on Tuesday as problematic.
Common Cause said Twitter posts from Republican candidates Marjorie Taylor Greene and Kari Lake should have included warning labels under the company's civic integrity policy, which governs misleading tweets about elections. Posts by Greene and Lake drew tens of thousands of likes and retweets on Twitter.
Twitter, which lost many members of its communications team in the layoffs, did not respond to requests for comment. Discussion on Twitter on Tuesday focused on real voting problems in states with closely watched races such as Arizona, Georgia, Michigan and Pennsylvania, according to research groups studying online election information.
Election officials in Arizona's Maricopa County said that the issues experienced on Tuesday would not affect vote counting. Officials in Pennsylvania's Luzerne County extended voting hours to compensate for the problems.
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