Social media firms are prepping for the midterms. Experts say it may not be enough

Voters cast their ballots at a polling station set up in a fire station on Aug. 23 in Miami Beach, Fla. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

With two months to go until the midterms, tech companies are getting ready: rolling out fact checks, labeling misleading claims and setting up voting guides.

The election playbooks being used by Facebook, Twitter, Google-owned YouTube and TikTok are largely in line with those they used in 2020, when they warned that both foreign and domestic actors were seeking to undermine confidence in the results.