How Facebook, Twitter, YouTube reacted to big events in 2020, including Trump's many lies

When it rained misinformation during election season, it poured policy updates from tech platforms. Too bad none of them thought to bring a sturdy umbrella in the first place.

The Mozilla Foundation, a nonprofit which advocates for a secure, open internet that supports democracy, has released an interactive timeline that shows the misinformation policy changes online platforms made before, during, and after the 2020 election, and how those actions intersect with major political and cultural events that spurred misinformation. Mozilla is most widely known for its Firefox browser, but the nonprofit also tracks online misinformation in an effort to improve tech policies.  Read more...