(AP): A single voting machine jammed for just minutes Tuesday morning at a precinct in Joe Biden’s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania – but misleading posts on Facebook and Twitter claimed multiple machines there were down for hours.
Pennsylvania emerged as a hotspot for online misinformation on Election Day. Facebook and Twitter scrambled to take down false posts about polling locations in Scranton, Philadelphia and beyond to minimise the spread of misinformation and prevent it from sowing doubt about the election process.
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