With U.S. President Donald Trump and his allies flooding social media with false claims of victory and allegations of voter fraud, social media companies have warned users the presidential election is still undecided.
Facebook has started running top-of-feed notifications on Facebook following Trump’s premature claims of victory. Its photo-sharing site Instagram notifies users that votes were still being counted, and no winner has been declared.
The false and baseless claims started with Trump declaring he had won (he hasn’t.) Trump further claimed that unanticipated mail-in votes were appearing out of nowhere (in fact, they were long-expected.) Later, Trump’s campaign claimed it had won Pennsylvania (where votes are still being counted.)
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