Brazil’s elections chief gets unilateral power to order the removal of online posts ahead of October 30 election, in an aggressive move to combat misinformation (Jack Nicas/New York Times)

Washington Post:
Review of misinformation labels: Twitter and Facebook have done little to refute inaccurate election claims by at least 26 US midterms candidates since April  —  A Post review of hundreds of posts found many with misinformation but none with social media labels

Nico Grant / New York Times:
Ahead of the US midterms, researchers say YouTube, which often flies under the radar, has misinformation blind spots that allow false narratives to slip through  —  The video platform said it had limited the spread of misinformation ahead of Election Day, but new research showed that false narratives continued to slip through.

Corin Faife / The Verge:
Data analysis of Twitter’s Birdwatch crowdsourced moderation tool: posts regarding COVID and “stop the steal” misinformation have been top areas of focus  —  Analysis by The Verge shows that Birdwatch users regularly tackle misinformation topics with the highest stakes, including pandemic response

Matt Day / Bloomberg:
The Amazon Labor Union withdraws its petition for an election at a southern California warehouse, after losing an election at a New York warehouse last week  —  Amazon.com Inc. workers seeking to join a union at a company warehouse in Southern California have backed away from their attempt …

Bloomberg:
Turkey passes a “disinformation” law ahead of its 2023 elections, mandating jail time for sharing online content deemed “false information” by authorities  —  Turkey criminalized the spread of what authorities describe as false information on digital platforms …

Jennifer Conrad / Wired:
WeChat, used by millions of Chinese Americans, is one of the main venues for Chinese-language misinformation in the US and may influence the 2022 US midterms  —  Ahead of US midterms, activists are fighting falsehoods circulating in Chinese-language communities that they fear will distort the vote or suppress turnout.