william: elizabeth dwoskin the of "the washington post," thank you for helping us wade through all oflizabeth: thank you for having me. judy: american presidential elections always draw great and intense interest globally, and this year's vote was no different. joe biden's win has been met with a variety of reactions -- elation in some regions, wariness in others, and some silence -- so far -- from american adversaries. here's nick schifrin. ♪ nick: in the part of the world perhaps most excited for president elect biden, in the -- the irish celebrated their luck. after four years of america first, western europe expressed hope for change. >> joe biden has decades of experience in domestic and foreign policy. he knows germany and europe well. >> many european leaders have worked with joe biden and share his day one priorities. reentering the paris climate accord, extending the new start treaty with russia, and rejoining the world health organization. among his first phone calls were european allies, including french president emmanuel macron. >> i wanted to congratulate you and to cong

all of these moves, false information is still shared in other ways and through other outlets elizabeth dwoskin is a reporter for the "washington post" who covers this space and joins me now. elizabeth, great to have you back on the newshour, just remind us what facebook and twitter and these social media companies have been doing thus far to try to stamp out mtion information. >> sure, well the companies are hell-bent on avoiding the repeat of 2016, the scenario where their platforms were abused by russian operatives, so thissier they took unprecedented measure to change their platform. facebook disabled group recommendations, it banned political ads which they have extended. twitter as you said slapped these labels on content where they actually covered up content for the first time and said these claims are disputed. and they banned claims that would dispute election results. they banned any kind of intimation of violences at the polls so these were unprecedented measures for companies that never banned misinformation of any kind prior to 2020. >> i certainly understand the instinct and many