Twitter and Facebook responded to the flagrantly manipulated video—but also showed their limitations in combating misinformation
entirely. But the Biden video shows the perils of misinformation beyond paid reach, as individual, non-paid posts rack up views while companies scramble to respond—and when they do, as Twitter's inability to flag Scavino's tweet outside of users' timelines shows, it may not even go far enough.
While the issue of spreading misinformation has garnered the most attention when it comes to the election, other recent incidents are also showing how the problem can have dangerous, real-world ramifications beyond who's elected president. FacebookTrump campaign ads that spread disinformation about the 2020 census, with ads that asked users to fill out an “Official 2020 Congressional District Census” that directed them to a fundraising page for Trump's re-election.
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