US Election Platform Preparedness

Authors: Isabelle Frances-Wright, Ellen Jacobs, Clara Martiny, Max Read, Ella Meyer

Published: 19 September 2024

A platform-by-platform comparative analysis is available here.

Ahead of the increasingly polarized US 2024 presidential election which has seen an increasingly obscured information environment, and a significant increase in hate speech and violent threats, ISD has assessed platforms’ policies, public commitments and product interventions.

ISD looked across six major issue areas: platform integrity, violent extremism and hate speech, internal and external resourcing, transparency, political advertising and state-affiliated media. While divergences were common across the platforms, one of the most alarming throughlines across all issue areas was a lack of transparency, particularly when it came to the details of platforms’ policies, safety efforts and resourcing.