The experts agree: The best way to accurately track election results, and avoid falling for misinformation between now and Election Day, is to avoid too much social media. Understand your social media optionsIf you’re going online to follow the election, pick a reliable news source or know what to look for on each social media or news aggregation site. Before the election, social media could be used to magnify and spread real and fake threats of violence at voting locations to scare people out of voting. So far, Twitter and Facebook have already labeled posts from President Trump that claimed mail-in ballots could lead to election fraud. Before sharing an article or social media post, do something radical: Make sure you actually read it.

Source: Washington Post October 20, 2020 10:01 UTC