For Mike Isaac's latest contributions to The Japan Times, see below:
For months, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube prepared to clamp down on misinformation on Election Day in the U.S. On Tuesday, most of their plans went off without a hitch. The social platforms added labels to misleading posts by President Donald Trump and notified their users ...
On Thursday, simmering discontent among Republicans over the power that Facebook and Twitter wield over public discourse erupted into open acrimony.
The company now plans to prohibit all political and issue-based advertising after the polls close on Nov. 3 for an undetermined length of time.
Facebook also widened its removal of posts that both explicitly and implicitly aim to disenfranchise people from voting.
