Author: Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY

Trump supporters rally behind hashtags such as #StopTheSteal and #voterfraud as Facebook and Twitter push back on dangerous election disinformation.

Facebook will alert U.S. users to the winner of the presidential election at the top of Facebook and Instagram feeds as Joe Biden closes in on win.

Facebook deploys “break glass” measures to restrict the flow of election misinformation as civil unrest grows during the wait for election results.

Facebook shut down a large pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” group which swelled to more than 350,000 members in two days over “worrying calls for violence.”

President Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani accused tech companies of being “maniacally anti-Trump,” and Trump called Twitter “phony guys who fix the elections.”

Facebook, Twitter and YouTube will be on high alert on Election Day and afterward for any effort to destabilize the election or delegitimize results.

Facebook restricts Save the Children hashtag which QAnon hijacked to push falsehoods about the exploitation of children by Democrats including Biden.

The Trump campaign tested the limits of Facebook’s ban on new political ads in the last week of the 2020 election but Facebook removed them.

At a Capitol Hill hearing, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey and Google’s Sundar Pichai will face charges they censor conservatives.

Mark Zuckerberg will ask Congress to reform Section 230, the law that shields tech companies like his from liability for what users post on platforms.