Isaac Stanley-Becker

The flurry of new rules after President Trump’s loss underscores the pressure he put on red-state governors to spurn experts and downplay the virus.

“ALERT: Radical Liberals & Dems are trying to steal this election from Trump!” began the short text, concluding: “We need YOU! Show your support at the corner of 12th St. & Arch St. in Philadelphia.”

The campaign and its aides have tapped a network of new and existing Facebook pages, groups and events — some of which have hundreds of thousands of members — to rally people in public this week around the unfounded belief that Democratic candidate Joe Biden is attempting to "steal" the election

The false and misleading claims, which drew rebukes from Twitter and Facebook, were also echoed in approximately 9 million text messages sent by the campaign over the past 24 hours, according to an anti-robocall firm.

As mainstream news organizations urged caution and patience, social media swelled with confusion, conflict and, in some cases, outright fury in response to the president’s statement from the White House, a scenario that law enforcement officials and digital-threat analysts had warned about for months.

Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies are being tested on new policies for premature election results.

An unidentified robocaller has placed an estimated 10 million calls in the past several weeks warning people to "stay safe and stay home," spooking some Americans who said they saw it as an attempt to scare them away from the polls on Election Day.

The rally for in Alamance County was thrown into disarray when police insisted demonstrators disperse despite a permit authorizing their presence.

From a pro-Trump super PAC to the president’s eldest son, conservatives have blown past Facebook's fact-checking guardrails, with few consequences. The pattern belies claims of anti-conservative bias.

Federal and state officials said they have fortified election systems since 2016, when Russian hackers scanned election-related websites and software across the country for vulnerabilities.