New results are expected from Georgia, Nevada and Pennsylvania today as President Donald Trump’s chances of a victory grow ever slimmer.
With 264 electoral votes, former Vice President Joe Biden needs just one of those states to swing in his favor to win the election. He leads in Nevada, and is closing the gap in Georgia and Pennsylvania, buoyed by the counting of mail-in ballots. Meanwhile, the president is filing lawsuits against the vote in an effort to stave off defeat.
Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden speaks Thursday, Nov. 5, 2020,
Biden pulls ahead of Trump in Georgia
By QUINT FORGEY 11/06/2020 07:00 AM EST
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has overtaken President Donald Trump in Georgia, closing the gap in the traditionally Republican stronghold after two full days of vote-counting.
As of Friday morning, Biden was less than 1,000 votes ahead of Trump, with both candidates resting at 49.4 percent support and 99 percent of expected ballots tallied.
Georgia’s potential flip from red to blue on the still-fluid 2020 map comes as the nation remains fixed on the state and the two other outstanding battlegrounds that could decide the presidency, Nevada and Pennsylvania.
Trump won Georgia’s 16 Electoral College votes by 5.7 percentage points in 2016. Republican presidential candidates have carried Georgia in every election since 1992, when Democrat Bill Clinton was victorious there.
Facebook said it will now restrict posts on both Instagram and Facebook that its systems flag as misinformation so that they are seen by fewer users.
Facebook curtails misleading posts, live video as election misinformation spreads
By STEVEN OVERLY 11/05/2020 10:13 PM EST
Facebook tightened its policies on election-related disinformation Thursday, limiting the reach of live videos and misleading posts in the latest effort by the world’s largest social network to tamp down an onslaught of baseless claims about vote-rigging and premature victory claims.
The move comes as Facebook and other social networks face mounting criticism from the left that they are not doing enough to stop the spread of false claims that could undermine faith in the election and results when they’re declared. Some prominent Democrats have called for the platforms to suspend the account of President Donald Trump, whose posts alleging electoral fraud have received warning labels on both Facebook and Twitter.
Facebook said it will now restrict posts on both Instagram and Facebook that its systems flag as misinformation so that they are seen by fewer users. It also is limiting the distribution of election-related live videos on its Facebook platform.
“As vote counting continues, we are seeing more reports of inaccurate claims about the election,” Facebook said in a statement. “While many of these claims have low engagement on our platform, we are taking additional temporary steps, which we’ve previously discussed, to keep this content from reaching more people.”
