It's Twitter's Election Now

Hi there, Lucinda Southern here, Adweek’s media editor. Over the next few months, we’ll be treated to so many takes on how the media and platforms handled Election Week and Donald Trump’s words.

Twitter is out in front. The platform has been sharpening its tools to throttle the spread of misinformation from the outgoing president. Anyone keeping a running tally of how many of Trump’s tweets now have warning labels attached to them may have given up a few days ago. No drama, my colleague Scott Nover has the latest on how Twitter, a true winner, policed this election.

Facebook, for its part, continues to publicize how it’s tackling misinformation. The platform removed a total of 1,196 Facebook accounts in October according to its monthly Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report. That’s twice as many as it removed in September.

Pinterest also lifted the lid on its crackdown, where over the last six months it received 919 content removal requests from government agencies in six countries, according to my colleague David Cohen’s reporting.

Elsewhere, the show isn’t over in Georgia, where the state’s two runoff races in January will determine who controls the Senate. Until then, let the political ad dollars flow.

“You’ll see more spending in Georgia in one month than you might see in some countries of a comparable size for a whole year,” Brian Wieser, global president of business intelligence at GroupM, told my colleague Sara Jerde. Here is one more bright spot for the ad market that has faced multiple batterings this year. Read on to see how these “unfathomable amounts” will be spent.

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Take care and have a great week, Lucinda.

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