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How social media corporations will deal with post-U.S. election situations

Within the run-up to the U.S. vote in November, social media corporations like Fb Inc and Twitter have introduced new guidelines for varied post-election situations.
In the run-up to the U.S. vote in November, social media companies like Facebook Inc and Twitter have announced new rules for various post-election scenarios.

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Author: Elizabeth Culliford

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  2. "Facebook Inc on Wednesday named the first members of its independent oversight board, which will be able to overturn the company's decisions on individual pieces of content and recommend policy changes". (May 6, 2020)
  3. "Outdoor apparel brand Patagonia Inc will pause its ads on Facebook Inc and Facebook's photo-sharing app, Instagram, making it the latest company to join a boycott campaign organized by U.S. civil rights groups". (June 22, 2020)
  4. "Alphabet Inc's Google will lift its temporary ban on election-related advertisements on Dec. 10, it said on Wednesday". (December 9, 2020)
  5. "Facebook Inc on Wednesday announced the first 20 members of its independent oversight board that can overrule the companys own content moderation decisions". (May 6, 2020)
  6. "Facebook Inc's independent Oversight Board announced on Tuesday the first six cases where it could overrule the social media company's decisions to remove certain pieces of content from its platforms". (December 1, 2020)
  7. "Alphabet Inc's Google said on Monday that it had removed search ads that charged users searching for voting information large fees for voter registration or harvested their personal data". (June 30, 2020)
  8. "Alphabet Inc's Google will stop selling political ads referencing U.S. elections across its services until at least Jan. 21, following last week's violence at the Capitol, according to an email to advertisers seen by Reuters". (January 13, 2021)
  9. "Top officials from Facebook, Google and Twitter were grilled by U.S. lawmakers on Thursday at a virtual hearing on foreign influence and election security ahead of the Nov. 3 presidential contest". (June 18, 2020)
  10. "Facebook Inc's long-delayed independent Oversight Board plans to launch in mid-late October, just before the November U.S. presidential election, but a Facebook spokeswoman said on Thursday it was unlikely that the board would handle election-related cases". (September 24, 2020)
  11. "Facebook Inc said on Monday it was updating its hate speech policy to ban any content that denies or distorts the Holocaust". (October 12, 2020)
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