There’s plenty of intrigue around Tuesday’s midterm elections, but this much is certain: social media will be a nightmare.
News outlets across the country are warning about the imminent deluge of misinformation, disinformation, conspiratorial thinking, and other distortions of the truth that will overwhelm social media. Conventional wisdom goes that Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms were woefully unprepared for the onslaught in 2020, and they remain unequipped to handle the torrent that’s about to hit.
