Social media firms are prepping for the midterms. Experts say it may not be enough

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Voters cast their ballots at a polling station setup in a fire station on August 23, 2022 in Miami Beach, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images

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With two months to go until the midterms, tech companies are getting ready: rolling out fact checks, labeling misleading claims and setting up voting guides.

The election playbooks being used by Facebook, Twitter, Google-owned YouTube and TikTok are largely in line with those they used in 2020, when they warned that both foreign and domestic actors were

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