Facebook says it could restrict some content if election leads to unrest

There are some break-glass options available to us if there really is an extremely chaotic and, worse still, violent set of circumstances, Clegg said.

His comments echo previous warnings from Facebook that it was preparing for scenarios where the winner of the presidential race isnt initially known or is in dispute.

Facebook already restricts the spread of many kinds of material on its services, from posts that promote violence by the Boogaloo extremist movement to posts that try to spread the baseless QAnon conspiracy theory.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly tried to cast doubt on the election, alleging without evidence that it could be rigged or that hed have to put down an insurrection against him.

This month, Facebook said that if any candidate or campaign tried to declare victory before the final results were in, it would add a label to their posts directing people to the official results from Reuters and the National Election Pool.