The special counsel’s long-awaited report underscored the urgency of fixing the nation’s election security gaps before 2020 — a task that state and local governments have been slow to take on
The specificity of the narrative offered a wakeup call to election officials and campaigns — although leaders in some states are still hitting the snooze button.
Facebook rolled out a series of changes aimed at addressing the threat, including verifying political advertisers, launching an ad transparency center, using both artificial intelligence and human reviewers to detect and block fake accounts, working with third-party fact checkers to vet disinformation and setting up a “war room” meant to respond to malicious activity in real time.
And Twitter, which launched its own ad transparency center, ramped up its efforts to pull fraudulent accounts and prevent the people behind them from starting new ones. It also banned the spread of hacked materials like the stolen Democratic emails that went viral shortly before the 2016 election.
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